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MacArthur Is Named Reds End Allied Pacitic Chief Ninth, British Join at Weser WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuter) Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander in the South- In New Push Toward Berlin; Pc3.cc Tic west Pacific, will command all Allied forces in the Pacific theater, it was announced here today. Adm. Chester W. Nimifcs, U.S. With Japs Pacific Fleet commander, will Nazis Hold On in Wurzburg head all Allied naval forces in the Pacific, the announcement Soviet Foreign Commissar Vya- stated. Observers in Washington have Karlsruhe Falls; chcslav Molotov yesterday handed said for some time that MacArthur to T. T. Sato, Japanese Ambassador would command the armies that Third Gains in to Moscow, a statement from the invade China and Japan's^ home- Kremlin which told the Japanese land to bring an end to the government that it would be im- Pacific war, while Nimitz conducts Gotha Area possible for Russia to renew its the operations that lead up to neutrality pact with Japan when such action. Another Allied drive on Berlin it expires next month. started rolling last night as troops of the Ninth U.S. Army and the The note explained to the Jap British Sixth Airborne Div. linked government that the pact was up along the Weser River, 175 signed in 1941 before Great Britain New Landing miles west of the German capital. and the U.S. had entered the war Late dispatches gave the Ameri- against Japan, and that because can and British units an approxi- Britain and the U.S. were now Made on Isle mate 15-mile front along the west allies of Russia, Japan's position in bank of the Weser, about 25 miles ' the Pacific war was a direct aid to west of Hannover, Reich provin- Germany in its war against Russia. Near Japan cial capital on the main cross- Congressmen in Washington saw country autobahn to Berlin. Russia's denunciation of the peace There has been no official an- pact as a step by the Soviets toward GUAM, Apr. 5 — American troops nouncement of a crossing of the a declaration of war on Japan. yesterday made a new landing on Weser, but frontline correspon- The pact will expire April 25, a Jap island between Okinawa and dents'1 reports have placed U.S. the day the San Francisco con- Japan's mainland island of Kyushu tanks within 22 miles of Hanno- ference convenes. while other Army troops, and ver, which would indicate that the Marines widened their grip on armored elements had gained a ^ „ 1 * Okinawa itself with new advances bridgehead of at least three miles i OK.'yo" east .of the Weser. News of Third Scant announced today. Quits in Crisis The name of the island where News of the. U.S. Third Army's the new landing was made was not push toward Berlin from the south- disclosed. west has been meager since the WASHINGTON, April 5 — Pre- capture of Gotha, 145 miles south- On Okinawa, Tenth Army troops Striking east from the Ruhr pocket, the Ninth U.S. and the Second mier Koiso and his cabinet re- and Marines of tthe Third Amphi- British Armies reach the Weser River, with Hannover and the direct west of the enemy capital, more signed today "in view of the war than 24 hours ago. bious Corps, both under the com- road to Berlin dead ahead. To the south, Patten closes cn Erfurt, At least three Third Army tank situation" and Adm. Zorki, 77-year- mand of, Lt. Ged. Simon Buckner, Patch nears Nurnberg and the French head for Stuttgart. old naval expert, has formed a fought down the east coast of the columns have pushed out along new government with the approval island to within three miles of the -west-east autobahn in the .of the Emporer, Tokyo Radio an- Naha, capital of the island, despite Gotha area. The most advanced of nounced today. heavy Jap artillery barrages from Soviets Battling in Vienna; these armored elements was Washington observers,, interpret- well-concealed positions high in the reported less than 70 miles from ing Koiso's resignation as a con- hills overlooking the American the Czechoslovak border and fession that Japan had lost the beachhead. All of Hungary Is Cleared closer to Berlin than the Rhine. war in the Pacific, declared that Meanwhile, troops which split the Farther south, the U.S. Seventh the appointment of Zorki, who has island after a push two days ago Army • has run into increasing resistance in its advance into ibecn in. retirement for 17 years, drove steadily ahead toward the Marshal Rodibh Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, driving south meant that Japan wanted a naval base at Nakagushuku Bay. from' captured Bratislava^ linked up with the right wing of Marshal southwestern Germany and toward government that would take steps Warships and planes supported the Feodor Tolbukhin's Third. Ukrainian Army today as the main spearhead Nurnb.urg. Stiffest opposition was being encountered by the Tenth .to prevent the destruction of the American operation. of Tolbukhin's Army fought violent street battles inside the Austrian Japanese homeland. capital of Vienna, reports-^ from. Mosfow said last night. Army and the 100th Inf. Div. around Klingenberg and Heilbronn. Two More in Philippines Moellersdorf, nine miles east of Luzon, P. I., April 5 — Two new Tito Reaches Moscow Vienna, fell to the Third Ukrainian Foe Clings to Wurzburg Jap Mass Suicide landings have been made on tanks, while an important communi- In the center of Lt. Gen. islands in the Philippines Group, With Cabinet Members cations tot^n 15 miles southwest of Alexander M. Patch's sector, the Gen. MacArthur's headquarters Bratislava was captured by Second Germans continued to bitterly Tound on Island Ukrainian troops. announced today. MOSCOW, April 5 — Marshal Tito, contest their, remaining half-hold Troops of the new Eighth Army regent of Jugoslavia, accompanied Moscow papers, heralding the on Wurzburg. Part of the 42nd The first mass suicide of Japanese landed on Tawitawi in the south- by his premier and foreign minister, Bratislava victory, declared . that Div's 232nd Regt. in the north of civilian refugees fleeing in the path western Philippines to seize air- Dr. Ivan Subasic, and other mem- Vienna was being partially eva- the city has regained ground lost cuated by civilians. of American troops has been dis- dromes and a small naval base bers of the cabinet, airlved in earlier to counterattacks which Moscow Radio said last night that covered on the island of Tokashiki less than 30 miles from Jap-held Moscow today. They were greeted almost drove them back to the Red armies had now completely Island, in the Keramas, according Borneo while Sixth Army troops with ceremony by leaders of the (Continned on Page 4) to 'a dispatch to the European landed on a small island between Soviet Union, ' headed byj Foreign cleared Hungary of German troops. edition of the New York Herald Luzon and Leyte. Secretary Vyacheslav M. Molotov. (Continued on Page 4) Tribune. Ninth Army Returns American patrols found 150 to 200 To Bradley Command men, women and children dead or Geneva Rules? Ask These Rescued PWs idying from strangulation or grenade SHAEF, April Command of the U. S. Ninth Army today re- wounds, the dispatch said. Most By Howard Byrne soon would be home. The Americans will be flown to verted to Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley's Japanese in the Keramas, it said, the French coast for trans shipment to the U.S. The Stars and Stripes Staff Writer 12th Army Group following an have acted no differently than British will go by air to England. It will be a flight official announcement from Allied front-line refugees in Europe. BAD ORB PW CAMP, April 4 (Delayed)— Thej from death. Supreme Headquarters. Cpl. Alexandef*"Roberts, of New were burying their dead at Bad Orb for the last time. Don't mention the Geneva convention to any of the Originally with the 12th Army York, described the scene as the Six thousand, six hundred Allied soldiers including Bad Orb boys. For them it's just a dirty joke. Most "most horrible" he had ever beheld. Group, Lt. Gen. William Simpson's about 3,509 Americans stood at attention and presented of the Americans had no cots and were forced to sleep force had been transferred to Field As he and other soldiers entered arms as the bodies of two American boys, wrapped on the floor of icy barracks with only a single thin a ravine, they saw three persons Marshal Sir Bernard Law Mont- in blankets, were carried by their buddies to the pri- strip of blanket for cover. Prison diet was vile. For standing in front of trees, bending gomery's 21st Army Group for tac- son graveyard. Thirty-six American soldiers had died as if bowing stiffly. breakfast men were given coffee with sugar and noth- tical reasons during the German at Bad Orb since the beginning of the year. These two ing else. The brew was so bad that it made some offensive in the Ardennes last De- "Then we saw what had made had died a few hours'before the liberation came. vomit. Lunch consisted of one litre of soup. At supper cember. them so rigid" he said. "They had When tanks of the 106th Cavalry Group thundered each man received one-seventh of a loaf of blaek bread The transfer puts Gen. Bradley tied loops of cloth around the with a cup of tea. Occasional treats were margerine in command of the most powerful trunks, stuck their heads inside the up to Bad Orb Monday thousands of shouting, laugh- and marmalade and once in a while a piece of meat Allied force in the west — the loops and flung themselves forward. ing, weeping prisoners hugged the crews and kissed the size of a man's thumb. U. S. First, Third, Ninth and 15th Their hands were untied and their the tank treads. Today it was announced by Army feet were firmly on the ground." authorities that the British and American soldiers (Continned on Page 4)

( Pace 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Apr. 1945

An Editorial They've BeenTorfured Enough There's a piece in today's Stars and Stripes by The rumor that German PWs are being pampered, S & S correspondent Howard Byrne. It's about the it says, isn't true. The U.S. is merely living up to the letter of the Geneva convention. Neither more What to write, just what to say ... American prisoners of war liberated from Stamm- To tell the folks what's new today. lager I X B at Bad Orb. It's one of many such stories nor less. That's our way of doing business. It's a Censorship often blocks the way. written these days as more and more lagers are good way — even if the Germans prefer another. To what's in our hearts, the answer's Emblem For DPs h overrun and their starved inmates freed. Lots of people, after reading stories like Byrne's, nay. have a bright idea. Why not, they ask, send our lib- The ruins of cities, the bestial war, One of the fellows in our outfit Byrne tells about the orientation program in the The gaping children, weak and sore— has a good idea which I think the camp. But he doesn't tell about a favorite discussion erated GIs back home, rest them and when ready Military Government people ought There's all of this, and even more ... topic: "What to do with Germany after the war." for duty, assign them as guards at our PW camps But for the lack of things to say, to consider. There are a lot of Dis- in the States? placed Persons—people who were The reason is the answers aren't printable. I'll write, "Nothing new—Very We think that's the most devious kind of torture dull day." brought here from foreign countries Recently Time magazine carried a story about the to work as slave labor for the Ger- we could possibly inflict. Not on the Nazis. But on Would they understand of each man's treatment of German PWs in the U.S.A. Time's mans—running all over the country- -the GIs. . toil; side. Many of them are wearing Ger- appraisal of the situation seems fair and. square. Of our seething emotions brought to man clothing, especially discarded a boil; German uniforms,xfor want of any- Of American blood reddening the thing else to wear. It would be a soil? good idea to give these people some Dough Shoots U.S. Warns of Nazi Plans Can't really think of what to say, sort of emblem they might wear so So it's, "Nothing new—Very dull that they would not be confused day." with the Germans, many of whom The Works to To Rebuild Failing Power Could I properly tell of the grime also still are running around un- and the dirt; captured. Of bodies that sag, yet with minds —Sgt. Clark Edwards Stop Platoon WASHINGTON, April 5 (ANS)— Unless plans of the Nazis to regain alert; their power after the war are checked, "they will present a constant And of my soul, where I'm mortally Monkey Wrenches WITH 45TH INF. DIV. — Ver- menace to postwar peace and security," the State Department warned hurt? I read a letter in B-Bag com- satile is the name for Pfc George in making public details of German documents now in U.S. possession* There's all of this, and more to T. Sallee, veteran Covington, Ky., + The documents show that the say, plaining because a lot of items are not picked up and turned in to the doughboy who joined this outfit on Nazis hope to remove Allied control But it's, "Nothing new—Very dull the Anzio beachhead in March, 1944. Ex-Marine Acts measures over occupied Germany by day." QM and other branches of service The other day when positions of where they can be put back in use a subtle plea for "fair treatment," Shall I tell of the shells that just the 180th Inf. were attacked by To Help Veterans the department said, and that they again. Well, I am just a company German SS troopers, Sallee found miss my head; supply sergeant and my men have seek to achieve their goal of world Of my comrade's shirt, now sticky himself alone while the rest of his Find Employment domination by pouring German tech- been picking up all GI equipment group went for rations. He spotted and red; and clothing left in the places we nicians, cultural experts and under* Of the ghostlike melody of singing a Nazi platoon coming his way and cover agents into foreign coun- move into and turning it in. Every dropped five or si mortar rounds lead? time I turn something in the bat- CHICAGO, April 5 (ANS) — ^pst tries. In spite of this, I'll act gay, into their midst. Among the plans are the renew- talion supply sergeant says, "Why Then he moved up forward to war job worries of men on the And it's, "Nothing new—Very dull the hell do you go around picking fighting fronts today were tackled ing of commercial friendship in day." his OP to see what was happening. foreign countries and of pre-war up all this stuff in every place you "Most of the stuff was falling pretty by a Marine veteran of 22 months Should I write of the corpses on move into?" service in the South Pacific who has cartel agreements, and the appeal to close to Ae Krauts, but they kept courts in various countries early in battle's lawn; This is the reason a lot of equip- on comiiW" Sallee said afterward formed a non-profit organization And of the eerie stillness of the still- ment and clothing is not picked up to help returning servicemen find the postwar period through dummies born dawn; While at the OP he spied one of to prevent "unlawful" seizure of by those who can pick it up. They his platoon's MGs. So he changed employment. And of the rotten stench when the get damn tired of getting chewed James H. Simpson, Jr., Chicago industrial plants and other proper- weapons and with a few well- ties taken over by the Allies, the cold is gone? out by the next higher echelon for aimed butsts halted the Jerries in attorney recently placed on inactive No! The proper thing to say turning it in. * status as a Marine Corps captain, department said. Is, "Nothing new—Very dull day." their tracks. If this method of court procedure —Supply Sgt. Med. Bn. "But those dopes were stubborn," originated the plan, known as In- Back home, they shan't know—per- P.S I am still turning it in and dustry for Veterans. fails, the Nazis will attempt pur- recalled Sallee. „I guess they were chases through "cloaks," who meet haps they may, catching hell. going to hang around." The organization, whose board of Of the fantastic price -we've had to directors includes former Vice Pre- necessary citizenship requirements, He saw a bazooka in the hole the department added. pay. Insulted next to the machine-gun and sident Charles ,G. Dawes, seeks It's between the lines when we say. The decision of sending 115 EM changed weapons again. pledges from Illinois industries that Rise in German Patents "There's nothing new—Very dull convicted of black market opera- "I let one round go and it made a minimum of 25 percent of post In their effort to flood foreign day." tions to combat units is a slap in a hell of an explosion right in the war jobs will go to servicemen and —Pfc. Shiky Kops III countries with technical and re- the face to every frontline soldier in middle of the Krauts. That did it. women. search experts, the Nazis will offer the ETO. The mere mention of the They took off," concluded triple- Simpson, whose father is board the inducement of low costs. German word „soldier" in reference to them threat Sallee. chairman of Marshall Field and Co., capital and plans for construction of My Wedding Band is an insult. Disposing of them in said pledges already had been signed ultra-modern technical schools and As I gaze upon my hand such a manner implies that the guys Human Target Screens which assure 37,500 post-war jobs laboratories will be offered at ex- A pretty sight I see, up here throwing the "Sunday LONDON, April 5 — Japanese have for Illinois veterans. He added that tremely favorable terms, "since they My simple little wedding band, punches" are classified in the same placed Allied prisoner-of-war camps Industry for Veterans plans to will afford the Germans excellent The one you gave to me. category: racketeers. close to military targets in Japan expand nationally. opportunities to design and perfect Its value I am told Our suggestion of transferring and Burma to protest targets from Simpson said at least 40 percent new weapons," the department said, them to the German army would be Is worth its weight in gold. bombardment, a War Office spokes- of American servicemen and women The department cited a pheno- Never to be pawned dear, much more appropriate. The choice man declared yesterday in Com- were too young when they put on menal increase in German patent Nor never to be sold. between a prison sentence and dis- mons. He said that both the U. S. uniforms to have jobs and therefor registrations in foreign countries honorable discharge or service with and Britain had protested, but that were not covered by the reemploy- The happiness it brought me during the past two years as an in- a combat unit is quite a bouquet to no reply had been received. ment clauses pf the Selective Ser- dication of Nazi efforts to continue In words I cannot say. throw our way. —The Infantry SUNK vice Act. For it lies down deep within my to share in the control and develop- ment of technological change in the: heart, With a love that grows each day. Their Smiles Show the Joy of Liberated Slaves of the Nazis immediate postwar period. These registrations reached ah all-* —Pfc. Salvis Cinifo time high in 1944. In addition, the Nazis w i t h d r e w their ban against; exporting capital from Germany sev- True eral months ago, and a substantial To say that two and two flow of capital to foreign countries Make four has followed. You must have a basis— The Allies are taking steps to in- Not just folklore. sure proper action "to smash the .Without a hierarchy economic and political foundation Of thought, of future German aggression," the 'All our logic department said. Must come to naught. —Cpl. Anthony Carlin Fear of Vet Neuroses Termed Just 'Poppycock' The Stars and Stripes NEW YORK, Apr. 4 (ANS)— GERMANY EDITION Assertions of some educators that American soldiers would return to Vol. 1, No. 2, Friday, Apr. 6, 1945 civilian life "with warped values Published at the auxiliary plant of and neurotic personalities" were the Frankfurter Zeitung, Fabrik Strasse, called "pretentious poppycock" by. Pfungstadt, Hessen, Germany, for the Frank H. Bowles, director of ad- U, S. armed forces under the auspices missions at Columbia University. of the Information and Education Divi- sion, Special and Information Services In a report to the university's ETOUSA. Other editions in London, president, Dr. Nicholas Murray Paris, Nancy, Nice and Liege. New York office, 205 East 42nd St. Butler, Bowles declared that the Contents passed by U. S. Army and translation of military training Navy censors. Entered as second class into civilian educational terms and matter March 15, 1943, at the post- college credits would not be diffi- office, New York, N, Y,, under the cult, since both are fundamentally ACT of March 3, 1878. Veron Babcock (left), of VIII Corps, dishes up chow for four civilians freed in the Third Army drive into Germany. They were part of a large French and Russian slave labor group which was liberated. similar. . Friday, Apr. 6, 1945 THE STARS AND STRIPES P»f e 3 Sports The Germans Get a Taste of Their Own 88s Navy 9s Draft Quota Bosox Allow Yanks 7 Hits, Is Slashed in Half WASHINGTON, Apr. 5 (AP)— The Navy has slashed its May draft quota 50 percent and may lower its June quota below that, it was lear- Win, 6 to 4 ned yesterday. Service calls will be reduced 12 percent or more from the current 132,000 men a month. That ratio had been scheduled to con- PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. April 5 tinue through June. f-—'■ > ■— Forty-year-old Mike Ryba and While there has been some pres- Rex Cecil held the Yankees to sure on the Army to cut its draft Lawmakers Ask seven hits here yesterday as the calls so that more men could take Red Sox defeated the Bronx Bust- I jobs in war plants, War Depart- ers, 6—4. Bod Johnson did most ment officials have refused to swerve Inquiry in Killing of the clouting for the Boston club from their call for 100,000 men a with a homer and a double while month through June. of Maj. Gen. Rose Benny Steiner contributed a double Selective Service officials, while and single. reluctant to predict the draft situa- WASHINGTON, April 5 (ANS)— But Joe McCarthy was smiling, tion .when Germany is defeated, Members of Congress today called despite the defeat, disclosed that pointed out that the size of the for an Army inquiry into the slay- he had heard that Red Ruffing draft would depend largely upon ing of Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, was due for an Army discharge. the number of vets released from killed by a machine gunner while In an another spring training the army. surrendering to a German tank game, Ken Raffensberger of the crew near Paderborn last Satur- Phils shut out the Cards, 3-0, with Keep Navy, King Urges day. four scattered hits. Garvin Ham- NEW YORK, April 5 — Main- (Gen. Rose was reported to have mer, rookie shortstop, led the tenance of present U. S. Navy been shot through the head while Philadelphia attack with four hits strength after the war was advo- surrendering his pistol to a Ger- while Stan Musial got two hits for cated here last night by Adm. man tanker. The general's jeep the Cards. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief driver, T/5 Glen .Shaunce, said of the fleet, at an informal meeting later that Rose was killed after he Buker's . a Test Case of Carnegie Foundation organiza- had complied with an order to put Lt. Col. Harry J. Hubbard, of Austin, Tex., commander of a field artil- tions. his hands in the air.) BEAR MOUNTAIN, N.Y. Apr. 5 lery battalion of the U. S. Ninth Army, fires a captured 88mm. dual- Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, (D-Colo.) — Branch Rickey plans to make a America's Navy should be "dedi- purpose gun against the enemy's positions in Germany. cated in war and peace alike to said, "We must insist that the test case of rookie pitcher Cy Army make proper investigation Buker, recently classified 1-A by promote the welfare of our people and of the world," the admiral said. and bring criminals responsible for his Sturgeon Bay, Wis., draft thi? apparent violation of military board, after he had left his job as He also urged that the U.S. merchant Kassel Won By 80th Div. marine be kept at present strength law to justice." a physical instructor to play ball He was joined in the demand for for the Dodgers. and declared that America should profit from experience and expand an investigation by three other Sen- Buker," gym teacher at Eau Claire In Bitter Street Battling the fortifications of Guam and other ators: Elbert Thomas (D-Utah), High School, had obtained a Pacific bastions. Senate Military Committee chair- reported to the Brooklyn training By ED BALL man; Lester Hill (D-Ala.); and camp here after the WMC had Associated Press Staff Correspondent i Eugene Milliken (R-Colo.) ruled athletes might leave war Joint Work Bill The War Department declined to jobs to enter baseball without fear WITH THE THIRD ARMY, Kassel, April 4. (Delayed) — This capital make any statement pending offi- of reprisal of the land which provided Hessians to fight Americans in the Revolu- cial reports but experience* mili- tionary War and provided Hitler with one of his biggest arsenals was Loses in Senate tary personnel who fought in the Wings, Leafs To Start Playoff cleared today by soth Inf. Div., doughs who fought their way forward armored race across France last house by house and street by street. DETROIT, April 5 — The second summer were inclined to regard it The Germans fought desperately* WASHINGTON, April 5 (ANS) — as an "understandable accident," place Detroit Red Wings and the to hold Kassel with its population Legislators beliieved today that the thirdplace Toronto Maple Leafs Soft Coal Output compromise bill was dead. The bill which might occur in the heat of of nearly a quarter of a million and battle. will-meet here tomorrow in the kept their tank and airplane fac- was rejected by the Senate yester- first game of the final Stanley tories going even after they were Cut By Stoppages day by a 46-29 vote. Cup playoff series. under fire from Yank guns. The Boston Bruins were elimi- The Senate approved a motion German PW Deaths But the doughs smashed the city's PITTSBURGH, April 5 (UP) — by Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney nated in their seventh game Wed- perimeter defense after a three—day A wave of unauthorized post-holi- nesday night, 5-3, largely due to (D-Wyo.) to seek a further con- Disclosed by Allies battle and began moving in from the day work stoppages had cut ference with the House, but in view the hot puck-pushing of Carl Lis- southern suburbs yesterday while sharply into the nation's soft coal combe of the Red Wings. of the difficulty experienced in SHAEF, April 5 — Deaths of an tanks attacked from the northeast. production yesterday, hitting bitu- reaching a House-Senate com- Toronto reached the finales of the minous mines in five states. unspecified number of German At noon yesterday tremendous ex- promise few congressmen believed prisoners of war while in U.S. National Hockey League post- plosions coming from the heart of Approximately 80,000 miners there would be further considera- season classic by defeating the the city shook the entire Kassel area, were idle in Pennsylvania, West hands March 15 were disclosed tion. today. Montreal Canadiens, four games indicating the Germans were blowing Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky and to two. Ohio, despite a temporary exten- The announcement stated that up military installations prepara- the deaths were caused by suffoca* tory to giving up the fight. With sion of their wage contract. Trusteeship Setup Production loss for the day tion resulting from insufficient Vandegrift, Marine Chief, these self-inflicted wounds, there ventilation in new types of wasn't much left of Kassel which amounted to about 450,000 tons. Planned By Big 3 Is Made a Full General The Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. American military boxcars in had been battered repeatedly by which the prisoners were being WASHINGTON, April 5 — The Allied air forces. called off plans to restore a blast WASHINGTON, April 5 (AP)— removed to the rear. Senate confirmed the promotion of At Altebauna, five miles south of furnace to production at the Du- The official report stated thai, quesne works, and announced that International trusteeships of cer- Lt. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, Kassel, Americans captured the results of investigation had beer Marine Corps commandant, to be sprawling factory which produces eight other furnaces would be tain territories wrested from Ger- shut down unless the mine pro- many and Japan in the war will be given the German high command a full general. Three vice-admirals engines for Heinkel planes. through the Swiss government, also were promoted to admiral: The Heinkel factory had vast ducing picture improves* set up by the Big Three in con- junction with China and France, with assurances that steps would Henry K. Hewitt, commandant of underground workings below and The chief cause of the stoppages be taken to prevent recurrence of appeared to be a spontaneous Secretary of State Edward R. Stet- the Eighth Fleet, and Thomas C. above the ground so well camou- such incidents. Kinkaid, commander of the Seventh flaged with an elaborate system of extension of the Easter holiday. tinlus, Jr., disclosed yesterday. Fleet, and Richard S. "Edwards, nets that the doughboys were upon Inclusion of China and France deputy chief of naval operations. it before they knew what it was. No. 22 for Georgian in the plan was arranged at the Four Japanese Vessels Thousands of cases of everything BRUNSWICK, Ga., April 5 (ANS) Yalta conference, Stettinius said. Sunk at Sumatra Bases from saccharine to Portuguese sar- — L. B. Clay, a shipfitter from The Secretary made the announce- Belgian Ports Busy ment concerning the territorial TRANSPORTATION CORPS HQ, dines were stored above and below nearby Bartow and the father of LONDON, April 5 — British" the ground along with thousands of four sons in the same air force in trusteeships at the same time that April 5 — American-operated ports he declared that the U. S. would destroyers and RAF bombers sank in Belgium cleared 1,501,410 tons of cases of champagne, cognac, wine the ETO, last week became the four Japanese vessels in a joint and elegant cheeses. There were father of his 22nd child. His newest seek only one seat instead of three supplies during January, according in the assembly of the proposed raid recently on enemy naval bases to Lt. Col. C. Z. Case, chief of the even storercooms filled with cigars offspring is a 15-pound girl born to in Sumatra in the Andaman Sea, world security organization. movement division. and cigarettes. his fourth wife. the SEAC communique said. By Milton Caniff Three supply ships and a sub- Therry and The Pirates marine chaser were sent to the bottom after the joint task force had bombarded Sigli, in North Sumatra, and Port Blair, in South Andaman. Vinson Is Confirmed For Byrnes' Job

WASHINGTON, April 5— The Senate today confirmed the nomi- nation of Fred M. Vinson as Direc-' tor of War Mobilization and Re- conversion, succeeding James F. Byrnes, who resigned four days ago. Page i THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Apr. 6, 1945

It Happened at Home Allied Declaration And Were They Em-barr-assed! New York Breezes Carry May End War—Ike Pretty Starlets Take 'Em Off WASHINGTON, April 5 — Gen- In Benefit Strip Poker Game Sounds of Something Big eral Eisenhower's personal esti- mate on the end of the war in in Europe was contained in a HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 4 (ANS)— letter from the Allied Supreme Five shapely movie queens—Toni By CHARLES W. WHITE Commander to President Roose- Seven, Ann Miller, Evelyn Ankers Stars and Stripes U. S. Bureau velt made public today at the Nina Foch and Renee DeMarco— NEW YORK, April 5 — In this city, a U.S. enlisted man returned White House. staged a strip poker session here for from the "Ah? Oui!" or "Nicht Verstehen" country gets a chance to Gen. Eisenhower's message said a United Nations clothing drive and stand on street corners, chew American toothpicks and think. He that there will probably be no they really took 'em off. thinks some strange things, and hears even stranger. For instance, clearcut victory in the west and The game, arranged by press agent there are terrible noises popping from ever direction, but the EM added that German defeat will Russell Birdwell, was attended by soon learns those aren't machine-guns; they are riveters still trying most likely be determined by a numerous male reporters and a few to get a job finished; and those loud clarion calls are just New York declaration by the Allied high female newshounds as well. The .taxis which still get there fastest with the mostest men, including command. starlets, blushing appropriately, also women. peeled o layer after layer to con- Among other queer noises heard here are those concerning V-E tribute toward 150,000,000 pounds of Day in Europe. Europe does not seem to be a place. It is a map on a 9th, British Join old clothes. The slogan, said Bird- wall over which obliging arrows dash in the general direction of well, was „Take off your clothes Berlin. No hills, no rivers, no valleys, no towns ahead. For Berlin Drive for the old clothes drive." A case in point is the immense discussion in the press, on the Miss Seven had the worst luck. radio and in the streets about what New York is officially going Each time she tried to fill a straight, (Continned from Page 1) • to do about celebration of V-E Day. (Everybody knows what he off came another layer until she sat would do in case such good news did come through; we are talk- Main, but resistance was still shivering in a pink brassiere and ing now about what New York's Masons, City Council, etc., are classed as strong. black lace whatchamacallums with going to do.) At the extreme southern end of "Oo La La" embroidered across her Instructions thus far have been to keep it down to a shout, advice the west front, Karlsruhe, Baden's hips. which will be followed also by Chicago policemen. The official attitude capital on the Rhine, has fallen to Miss Foch peeled down to. white is: Have your fun but don't make trouble for the police, or tear up the First French Army after 24 lace panties but kept on her blouse phone books, or throw bottles out of windows. In addition, there is a hours' fighting within the city. because, she explained, she had request from churches of all denominations to accept victory with The eastward drives of the Second nothing unterneath. Miss Miller had reverence and thankfulness, staying home with the family to pray, British and the the First Canadian ditto—but kept holding aces, dam- or at least making the observation a very quiet period. armies in north-central Germany mit. Miss Ankers shed all but a There are also plenty of warnings from above and below about now threatens to outflank enemy black chiffon underslip, even wigg- overconfidence, the destructive effect of peace rumors, etc. But—if positions in northern Holland. Air ling out of a pink brassiere several you were standing on the corner here ruminating and listening and reconnaissance reports have given times for photographers—and the TONISEVEN wondering—you would get the idea that, despite all the above, indication of German withdrawal clothing drive. camera in the scramble and had to these folks have got the idea their nag is coming around the bend here. Miss DeMarco was The star of the ask her to take it off again. She did. in jig time and all ticket holders will be paid. In a way, it is a Canadians on the 21st Army day. After shedding a demure high- The starlets still wore their hats. compliment to the doughfeet involved, but as you stand on a Group's left flank were meeting necked dress, she stood revealed in "Heavens!" they gasped. "Without corner thinking, you find you can't figure it out. stiff resistance from remnants of a pair of green step-ins dripping with those we'd feel naked!" The New York press, of course, has carried all the pros and cons the German First Parachute Army filmy lace. One photog dropped his on the matter, but Ed Sullivan came up with the latest piece of along a 70-mile front but have news that tells the whole story in a few words: Sullivan says Lindy's made gains of up "to 12 miles in the is the first Broadway restaurant to board up its windows against last 12 hours. Geneva Rules A 'Dirty Joke' V-E Day hysteria. The Ruhr pocket was still further reduced as the First and Ninth U.S. An Example of How Things Work armies ground in another two to To Rescued Yank Prisoners four. miles ot} the northern and Perhaps a news sidelight of more genuine interest comes froia eastern flanks of the encircled Chicago. There, the production of critical war material resumed at enemy. In its sector around the (Continned from Page 1) were forced to use' the same hel- the Cribben and Sexton Co. when members of the United Stove pocket, the First Army has overrun One hundred and forty men mets to eat from but were given no Workers called off a five-day strike. The manufacture of 155mm two German field... hospitals and were crowded into a barracks 100 water to wash them. shells, an important part of the company's war program, couldn't taken more than 9,000 prisoners. feet long, 20 feet wide, infested "That tickled the Krauts a lot," start at once because of the time required to bring the furnaces The total Allied prisoner take with bedbugs, fleas and lice. said a Texas boy grimly. "They have to the proper heat, but by the time anyone reads this, the stuff since the trans-Rhine offensive quite o sense of humor." will be rolling. That's just one small plant, but it may give an "We tried our best to keep it started has now rolled close to the indication of how the country operates underneath all noises, clean," said a skinny kid from "One thing that burned us up most 300,000 mark, an average of about wrangling and seemingly loud talking. New York, "but we had no soap. was the ghetto barracks they set up * * * 20,000 per day. Yesterday the Third Some of us had only one chower for Jewish boys in this camp," said Army alone took another 20,000 in three months. Look at these an ex-New York newspaperman. Meanwhile, operations concerning huge commercial enterprises PWs. legs. That's what happens when "When the boys came in they were continue—things the above referred-to enlisted personnel hadn't The Allied air offensive against you scratch these louse bites." told to register, giving civilian occu- noticed before. For instance, in the Montgomery Ward case the remaining targets in Germany con- His arms and legs were covered pation and religion.'Seventy-two fel- Government has now filed an appeal from the federal ruling that the tinued yesterday despite April with puss-filled sores. lows said that they were Jews. One President's seizure was illegal. However,, the Army is still operating weather. More than 1,200 Forts and "We used to see these on Italians," day we were told that the Jews stores in Chicago and six other cities under an agreement. The Libs from Britain, escorted by over sold one soldier ruefully. "Now we've would have to be segregated and live Government brief, filed pay day (that is, March 31), contains 132 pages 600 Mustangs and Thunderbolts, got them ourselves." by themselves in-Jewish barracks. and says practically the same things as before. This time, the U.S. raided rail and communications We protested that we were all Circuit court of Appeals must decide. Ninety-five percent of the Ameri- targets in the Magdeburg, Nurn- Americans and wanted to be " * »* * . cans in Bad Orb were boys from the burg and Munich sectors while 106th and 28th Divs., trapped last treated equally but we were told A big trust-busting case has people all over the country talk- about 1,000 RAF planes hit Berlin, December during the Rundstedt that it was a direct order from the ing. Tk-U is the federal suit against the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Hamburg and Magdeburg by night. drive. High Command. Co. stores, filed in Illinois courts. "When the Jewish boys were mar- The Government charged the A and P with competition. It "Two of our boys suffocated while on the way here," said a tall, sallow ched out a lot of the fellows joined cited monopolistic practices like price cutting to run others out of Chicago boy who kept a diary of his them who had not said anything at business, later upping prices; buying up the entire coffee crop of Russia daily experiences. "They jammed us all before about being Jews. They Brazil and then sitting on it to put the squeeze on others and to (Continned from Page 1) said that whatever Was coming they bring them into line, putting no extra cream in momma's coffee into boxcars, 87 to a car. There was wanted to share it with them." at home. Indicative that the Germans also a thick layer of horse manure on the * * * may be collapsing on the Eastern floor with a little straw. That's what Segregation in Bad Orb was not Front was an official Soviet an- we had to sleep on for four days limited to Jews. British, Russian, The Government wants to break up the whole arrangement. The nouncement that the Second and without food or water." French and Serbian soldiers were A and P denies all, and says it will fight to the bitter end. People Third Ukrainian armies had taken separated from each other by barbed here are interested in any scrap, and likewise everybody buys The German guards did not allow more than 23,000 prisonners in one prisoners to leave the cars to relieve wire enclosures. An American med- groceries and nearly everybody has had dealings with the A and P themselves. They were forced to use ical officer said that the only help stores, so it is only natural that there is quite a lot of speculation and day. helmets for this purpose, throwing the Germans gave him in taking even argument on the subject. At the northern end of the front, care of the American boys was a few The above-hasn't much bearing on the war Tout may give an idea 2,000 Germans were taken prisoner the contents out of small windows at the top of the cars. When they sulfa pills and other incidentals. In of what people are talking about in the U.S.A. when not talking by Soviet troops mopping up a three months he had had 1,600 men about the war. Of course, it takes a little time for a newcomer from pocket east of the captured port of finally were released and given food, on sick call. He considered himself Danzig. no messkits were provided. The men other parts to get used to this. lucky that only 36 had died. Li'l Abner By All Capp The doughboys ruled themselves by electing one representative from IT'S 50 NICE T'BE BACK* each barracks to a central council IN DO&PATCH WHAR and also elected a "man of con- EVERVTHIN' 15 QUIET AN fidence" who acted as liason with PEACEFUU- the Germans. An excellent orien- tation program was developed by a New York newspaperman who gave o series of 21 lectures on American history from memory. From 50 to 500 men attended. He also organised a weekly quizz show for which the audience at times reach 1,000. In general, the Americans reported that their guards were not brutal or sadistic. The Russian's, however, were treated cruelly and murdered on any pretext.