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Vol. 1—No. 122 lFr. New York—PARIS—London lFr. Thursday, Nov. 23, 1944 7th Army Sights Rhin No Holiday Thanksgiving, 1944 French Advance ButTurkey In the town of Eschweiler, which is in Germany, mortars burst about the battered house and plaster dust sifted down from the ceiling. Frank Iuluno, a T/5 radio operator from New York City, looked up. 15Mi. North war- Is Plentiful "I'm thankful that roof is strong," he said. "I'm thankful I'm still kicking around." Americans on the Continent to- Ail day they'd fought in the rubble which had been houses along day observe their third Thanksgiv- the streets of the German town. Some of them had died, and some of ing of World War II, their first on All Metz Captured the other people, and there was all the smell there that had been in the Western Front. For almost all all the other towns since Normandy long ago. Pfc Mike Arviso, a C Co. of them—as Armistice Day—it is medic from Lordsburg, NM., was bandaging a fellow's hand in a door- a day of war. way sheltered a little bit from the mortar fire. U.S. Seventh Army troops pushed through the outer ring For the U.S. Army Quartermaster "I'm thankful I'm alive," Arviso said. "I'd like a big turkey of German Vosges Mountain defenses to within sight of the Corps it is a day of reckoning. dinner, but I'm thankful for C rations." He went on with his Rhine River yesterday, while below them the French pushed Exactly six weeks ago, Maj. Gen. bandaging. Robert M. Littlejohn, ETO QM 15 miles northward along the west bank of the Rhine from chief, promised that there would be From the company CP, Jerry Hooker, a first lieutenant from Eugene, captured Mulhouse to Colmar, pulling an Allied loop around turkey for every man here. Ore., stared out into the November weather. the southern flank of the Nazi West Wall in Alsace. Yesterday's news that 1,604 tons "I'm thankful," he said slowly, "that we're getting into Ger- Northward, spearheads of three more American armies of plump bird had been distributed many and getting it over. Fd%e more thankful for clean clothes on the Continent indicated that he and dry shoes and for a shower." —the First, Third and Ninth—thrust deeper into the pine wasn't taking any chances. The lieutenant looked down at the wetness of his clothes, and the forests and dingy towns of the Reich and the capture of Keynote to the solemn aspect of mud on his feet, and stared again at the November weather. Metz, Europe's mightiest fortress, was announced officially. this year's Thanksgiving Day was Now and then a 60mm. mortar coughed at the Germans and the Gen. Eisenhower sent aa congra- a message to the men of the U.S. muddy men around it twisted their heads a little as they waited for the tulatory message to the XX Corps First Army by Lt. Gen. Courtney noiso of the explosions. S/Sgt. C. A. Little, the Elizabeth, N.J., weapons which took it. H. Hodges. He said: platoon sergeant, said: Mop-up Troops The Seventh Army advance across Message from Hodges "I'm thankful we're fighting in their fatherland instead of the Vosges Mountains brought ele- "Let us join together in giving our home or in some other country." He told a man to move In Eschweiler ments to 25 miles west of Stras- thanks to God that our efforts in over a little bit in the mud. bourg, toward which the French this struggle with evil and oppres- were pointed from the south, and sion have been blessed with suc- The fellow went up to S/Sgt. Len Lindberg, from Beverly, Mass., Find Only Ruin threatened to encircle thousands of cess. I know of no words that could and asked him what he was thankful for this day in the town of Esch- enemy troops in Alsace. The ad- weiler, and the sergeant said: express to you the gratitude I feel By G. K. Hodenfield - vance to Colmar, south of Stras- so deeply in my heart. It is enough "I'm thankful all the frontline troops are getting turkey: and Russell Jones bourg,' was announced by Gen. to know that because of you the I've seen them." Stars and Stripes Staff Writers. Charles de Gaulle, according to free peoples of the world are today "I'm thankful the mail is good," said M/Sgt. Henry Traman- WITH FIRST ARMY INF. AT Paris Radio. giving thanks to God Almighty who tano, of Brooklyn. "The AFOs kept their word and delivered the ESCHWEILER, GERMANY. - Nazis Cut French Corridor has made possible your vast achie- Christmas packages." Eschweiler is like Aachen—the same Stars and Stripes Correspondent vement. Let us call upon Him to The mortars pickei up their beat again; plaster was slammed from sort of fighting, the same sort ot Dan Regan, With the Sixth Army strengthen our hearts against the civilians, the same sort of Joes, the Group, reported that German heavy ordeals that lie ahead, that we may the houses of the town, and the mud and stone mushroomed now and then around the men who were spending Thanksgiving eve in Germany. same sort of prisoners. panzers counter-attacked French assure the final success of our arms. The artillery and Air Force had forces near Dannemarie, west oi Let us, in remembrance of our com- a go at Eschweiler before the troons Mulhouse and Altkirch, and cut a rades who have passed on, give moved in and the town is now lust section of the corridor the French thanks to Him that we live to as- 10th Armored 'Tigers' Prowl another big pile of rubble and hold to the Rhine. sure that lasting peace for which debris, stacked around walls i,hat Armored elements of the First they died." hide only movie-set versions of French Army which took Mulhouse, Services will be held in some of Reich Despite Traps, Mines what once were the homes and Alsatian industrial city, captured Europe's most famous cathedrals,' shops of 34,000 persons. There is more than 1,000 prisoners, including Including Notre Dame in Paris, plenty of mortar activity on both part of the 19th German Army cathedral at Rheims, and Westmin- By Earl Mazo sides these days and little by Uttlf staff, Regan said. ster Abbey in London. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. the town is being beaten down to Regan reported that French WITH TENTH ARMORED DIV. IN GERMANY, Nov. 22. village size. armored forces with the Seventh —This division has smashed through to Germany at several Civilians Stay Behind rolled well beyond the Saverne Gap defenses eight miles east of Sarre- 350 U.S. Fliers points, and a column this morning was tackling one of the Nearly all of Eschweiler now ;r in our hands and the fighting is bourg which fell Tuesday. outer defenses of the Siegfried Line west of the Saar between Just a matter of looking for Jerries, The breakthrough brought some Mi ssmgin that river and Luxembourg. The Tenth Armored "Tigers" finding them, and then either kill- Seventh Army elements to 18 miles were the first division of Pattern's ing or capturing them. Many are of the Rhine, which constitute the More than 350 American airmen Third Army to reach Germany. taking refuge in cellars and 'lave (Continued on Page 4) —the crews of 35 bombers and 13 While there has been opposition French-Built Plane to be pried out one at a • time. fighter pilots—are reported missing aplenty from German troops and Resistance in some places is very from Tuesday's 1,250 Eighth AF. artillery, tankers and armored Given to Eisenhower stiff, indeed. U.S. Fly Bomb Fortress and Liberator attacks on doughboys of this outfit figure S/Sgt. Raymond Paquin, of Sacra- mento, Cal., and Pvt. Athul Stogner, oil plants in western Germany, dur- their biggest obstacles so far have The next time Gen. Eisen- ing which 1,100 escorting Eighth been of an engineering nature. of Henriette, Okla., brought in nine hower visits uni-3 of the French Tops VI in Test Mines of every description, in- and Ninth AF fighters shot down Army under his command he (Continued on Page 4) 73 enemy fighters. cluding concrete "plastic," bounding, WRIGHT FIELD, Ohio, NOv. 22. and boxwood, enclosed Reigel may fly in an airplane bearing Following up the day attack, more the tricolored circle of the Phone Tieup Continues —The Army Air Forces have de- than 1,300 RAF Lancasters and Hali- mines, tank ditches and traps at WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—A strike veloped a robot bomb which has every turn and advantageous spot, French Air Corps. faxes heaped bombs on the syn- The monoplane, of the design of Ohio telephone workers continued been making test flights since Oct. blown bridges and craters are thetic oil factories at Sterkrade the French built for the Ger- today despite a threat by the War It, it was officially disclosed today. and Castrop-Rauxel in the Ruhr everywhere in the path of the ad- mahs during the occupation, was Labor Board that the government It is considered better than the and on the railway yards at Aschaf- vancing Tenth. At one point a would seize the facilities unless the Germans' because its launching tank slipped on the road shoulder, presented to Gen. Eisenhower fenburg, 25 miles southeast of yesterday toyGen. Rene Bauscat, strikers went back to work by 10 ramp can be built in four days, Frankfort. apparently on a double-up mine. AM. The board ruled that there while the German ramps were said It was blown up and fell over on chief of operations of the Six-pound cannon, fitted under French Air Corps. would be no company-union nego- to take 14 days to build. the fuselage of the RAF Mosquito, (Continued on Page 4) tiations until the strikers returned. "We may never need a robot have been blasting German «J- bomb," said Maj. Gen. Ber.net boats and surface vessels for more Meyers, "for the AAF does not go than a year, it was revealed yes- in for indiscriminate bombing at- terday. The secret weapon, first tacks. But if we do need it. we've used in Nov. 1943, has been ex- 40 Yanks Held and Saved an Army got a good one," tensively employed since D-Day of the Seventh Armored Div., have against U-boats attempting to Fifty yards away, the German his own—good shooting distance, Tiger rumbled toward the 40 Yanks too. He killed eight Nazis with his just become known. At the same CIO No-Strike Pledge hinder Allied cross-Channel traffic, time, the wraps were down on the it was anounced. of an armored infantry platoon, rifle fire. Then an 88 came hurling well dug-in in the marshy earth at him, and his leg was broken in strict censorship which has hidden Renewed at Convention of southern Holland. Quickly, a three places. T/Sgt. Joe Detche- the movements of the "Lucky Oesel Island Garrison few Americans, led by T/Sgt. Harold memdy, of St. Louis, took a platoon Seventh" since they ran out of gas The CIO convention in Chicago P. Brown, of Dallas, Tex., thrust from Co. A of an armored infantry after liberating Verdun. yesterday unanimously adopted a Periled by Red Attack forward the long snouts of their battalion and wiped out a company From Verdun, the Seventh, which resolution renewing its no-strike bazookas and fired. The tank fell of German infantry. had spearheaded the Third Army's pledge for the duration of the war Russian land, sea and air forces back...... The Americans held. drive across France, went on to after President Philip Murray urged in a combined attack threatened For two days and a night, this If they had not, the German Metz, and forced a bridgehead it to "live up to its promises." yesterday to wipe out the German tank and seven other Tigers nad counter-attack would have swung across the Moselle south of the city. At the AFL convention in New garrison on Oesel Island command teen firing at the small group from behind the British-Canadian forces That was in early September. Orleans, the resolutions committee ing the Latvian port of Riga, one point-blank range, never from more and cut their supply lines, bringing Orders came transferring the divi- considered a proposal to declare of the last German footholds in the than 100 yards away—never nearer possible disaster to Lt. Gen. Miles sion to the U.S. First Army,, then "unfair" all products manufactured central Baltic. The Germans fought than 50. C. Dempsey's campaign for Ant- storming Aachen. in Arkansas and Florida. The two in a dwindling pocket barely four S/Sgt. Raymond Malionewski, of werp in late October. The division moved up to south- states adopted constitutional amend- miles deep against the new Soviet Detroit, was directing artillery fire Details of the battle, with official ern Holland and was clearing the ments in the Nov. 7 election which drive. on a Nazi position 50 yards from praise from the British for the men (Continued on Page 4) would outlaw closed shops. Page 2 THE STARS AJND STRIFES Thursday, JNov. 23, 1944 Jf4nsh Q)ank4 An Editorial

OUT HfRt Quip of the Week. A soldier sta- Something to Be Thankful For tioned in the wilds of New Guinea was griping about Prank Sinatra. He observed, "If gals back in the More People Like You States like guys with that lean, The editorial of November 7 was hungry look—just wait till we get such as to bring a lump to a dog- home!" face's throat. It is more than touching to be told you are made GIs of the medical detachment of good stuff by somebody who M a field artillery battalion over ought to know, with such obvious here agree that T/5 Oscar Sheriff sincerity as that of 2/Lt. Slanger. has the best plan for punishing Nobody turns down bouquets and Hitler—have Adolf personally wall- we eat that kind up—but: paper every house that has to be I wonder if the good nurse was reconstructed because of Nazi ag- deliberately overlooking the real gression. reason for our deep-seated respect and regard for her and her sis- We like Lt. P. J. Bernheim's de- ters? Maybe in the throes of her finition: "Chivalry," he says, "is passionate pen, she actually forgot when a man wants to protect a the one factor which lifts her cha- racter above the level of the men she attends. Maybe it has never occurred to her at all. We want your respect, admiration and love, dear nurse, but we want it with ODAY—every day—we are thankful for well clothed. Able to sleep throughout your eyes open. T this: still nights. Able to awaken each morn- We men were not given the choice For our villages, towns and cities still ing, unafraid. of working on the battlefield or the For the chance to learn to rule ourselves homefront. We cannot take any intact. For quiet fields and for houses personal credit for being here. We —to continue our quest for an ever better with roofs and walls. For schools and way of life. For all of us. Of all of us. By are here because we have to be. churches that teach the truth. For farms You are here merely because you girl from men who have ideas be- all of us. felt you were needed. So, when an cause he has the same idea him- and factories safe and secure. For roads And if we must fight to keep these injured man opens his eyes to see self!" —smooth and unbroken—that lead to things, we are thankful we fight the enemy one of you lovely, ministering an- • * * gels concerned for his welfare, he Our Own Sports Corner. For other towns like this. All thousands of in his fields and his cities. In Aachen, can't but be overcome by the very years sports writers have dreamed miles from war. Cologne, Berlin. And not in Middletown, thought that you are doing it be- of the four-minute mile. Sez H. V. For families and friends well fed and Washington or Chippewa Falls. cause you want to. Wade: It looks like a man with a It does not matter that we lie good chance of doing the perfect in mud—yes, crawl in it, while you mile would be a homesick Hun with only "wade ankle deep," or that you a strong wind and a Russian at hi* possibly enjoy a few more con- back. SOMEWHERE veniences over here than we. The • • « important thing is that you could Squib from the Classics. Hun- dreds of years ago in the Lowlands be home, soaking yourselves in a of Scotland, commanding officers bathtub every day, putting on clean had a hard time making their EMs EUROPE clothes over a clean body and wear helmets in the battle zone. At He Wasn't Color Blind! "They never walk around in French cannot use counter- crawling in between clean sheets at the day." battery tactics for fear of lob- least, here's how Sir Walter Scott A Third Armored Div. motor ser- night, on a soft, springy mattress. records it in one of the Ballads of "Are the Germans all in front bing shells into Switzerland. Instead, you endure whatever hard- geant's quick ■ eye for color har- the Border: of us?" the captain asked. * * * ships you must to be where you mony resulted in the capture of "No sir. There are a few on can do us the most good. He belted on his gude braid seven Germans and the recovery the Russian front." Another News Sh->et I'd better stop now, because I'm sword of a peep. When Third Armored And to the field he ran; A couple of months ago, getting sentimental, but I want you tanks were rumbling through Bel- * * * S/Sgt. Bill Hilton, of 9th Divi- to know your "editorial" did not But he forgot the helmet good gium, S/Sgt. Herman B. Delaigle, That should have kept his No Mail Complaint Here sion's 47th Infantry and Craft- change, but only confirmed my deep of Waynesboro, Ga., by-passed a on, Pa., originated one of the brain. peep on his motorcycle. A bit of One fellow who does all right respect for you modern Florence • - • • with his mail is Capt. Joseph newest Army newspapers in the Nightingales. If the world had a field grey seemed to be protruding theater. Appropriately, fie Sgt. Dave Karten, a guy who is from the driver's coverall sleeve. Sandlin, 45th Div. infantryman few more people like you in it, there really on the ball, has reached a from Wagoner, Okla. Since he named it "The Siegfried Ga- .wouldn't be any wars.—Pfc Millard conclusion which leaves us no corner When the peep driver refused to zette." heed Delaigle's order to halt, the left America in June, 1943, he Ireland, Inf. in which to hang our head. He * * * Yank drew his pistol, hit the peep's has received 1,915 letters from (2/Lt. Frances Slanger, ANS, sez, "When you copy from one his wife—an average of 3.72 let- Men commanded by Capt. Bruce who wrote the letter printed as source, it's plagiarism. When you rear tire and ended the Germans' mad effort to reach their lines in ters a day. And that doesn't C. Cagle, Corsicana, Tex., don't do an editorial recently, was Killed copy from five sources, it's research. include a weekly box of cigars. much sleeping when they are on by a German shell Oct. 21. When you copy from Esquire, a stolen Red Cross vehicle. * * * - duty at the company's OP. They Since it appeared hundreds of Reader's Digest and Joe Miller's * * letters have paid tribute to her Joke Book—it's a Hashmark" Wild West(ern) Front and the entire Corps. These *. • • ~ • And then there was the guy who Running Comment Many Germans speak English letters will be bound and sent but it took a Third Div. doughboy, J.0 her family because we believe proposed to "Miss America" through "What's out there on that a Lonely Hearts Club only to dis- hill?" a 90th Division captain Sgt. Warren C. Holton Jr., of Phila- they constitute an inspiring and delphia, to find one who spoke enduring memorial.—Ed.) cover that she had won her title asked a runner. in 1902. "Germans," the runner said, Injun. Out on battle patrol -with * * * J. C. W. "I can't see any of them." his Seventh Inf. section, Holton Hash-Hound surprised a Nazi in a foxhole and don't like the way the captain got the Wild West surrender offer How to make C-Ration hash arouses the sleepers. Front with Mautdin of "Hands up, hands up, Big Chief Irritated when they didn't an- eatable: Mix onion and flour in next hole" The "Big Chief" with the hash and fry it in turned out to be a lance corporal swer the telephone, Cagle had his small thin patties.—Sgt. W. B., who doffed his feathers without mortar section drop a shell 100 CInf. ceremony. yards in front. Now, he never has to wait for an answer to his calls. * * * * * * * World War III Blueprint Relatively Speaking OP A at the Front I've been a soldier 44 months, 24 Lt. William D. Eisenhauer, spent overseas. I never failed to When an armored unit com- of Denver, Col., is supreme manded by Lt. Col. Robert M. obey an order. commander of an Eighth In- Recently it has been circulated Booth took over a town he ruled fantry Division quartermaster it with a firm hand. Booth down through channels that we laundry platoon. He's a fifth must not fraternize with the Ger- decided that beer prices were or sixth cousin of another too high, so he ordered a uni- man civilians. Well, it is difficult supreme commander named for me to follow this order for I Eisenhower. form price of three francs a am anxious to prove to the Ger- glass. All of .the places agreed man home folks that we're human. * * * to co-operate except one. That Of course, I will never trust any Great Thing—This Mail place was closed. of them with anything which would It was a nice French farmhouse * * * affect the life of an American with thick walls, so a squad of 35th Out of the Frying Pan soldier, but I find it hard to resist Division combat engineers made it the temptation to speak to them. T/5 Otho Ridgley, of 4th Infantry their front-line home. One night, Division's 70th Tank Battalion, . The real story is that I have met when they went on a mission a young lady and have promised knows what it means to hop out beyond the American lines, they of the frying pan into the fire. her that I will return after "the war left Pfc John J. Famiglietti, of Ridgley was putting his shoe on to become her husband. She isn't Glen Cove, N.Y., behind as "room when a 240mm shell burst close by, "any soldier's girl," but a sincere orderly." slashing off the heel of the shoe. young lady with whom I've known Then the mail clerk called Fami- Ridgley was sighing in relief, when only respectful conversation and glietti. Seconds after he went out he heard an ominous crack. The companionship. Now I cannot to get his letter, a German shell same shell had splintered a tree speak with her if I follow my gen- smashed into the bedroom. trunk, and a pine crashed down, eral's orders. What can I do?— "That letter sure raised my breaking his ankle. A Worried Soldier. morale," he said. * * * THE STARS AND STRIPES * * * To Jerry, With Love Prlntea at the New ?orfc Herald Nazis Play 'Dirty Pool' The "Wehrmacht Ammo Section" Tribune plant. 21 rue de Berri. Paris, for the CJ.S armed forces under aus- Old hands at new tricks in is the title given a group in the pices of the Special Service Division. the finer points of war, the 90th Division's ordnance company. ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYSEES 85-00. Germans are playing dirty pool As the name would suggest, the Contents passed by the U.8. Army and Navy censors. Entered as second with the French infighting along unit provides ammunition for the class matter Mar 15. 1943. at the the Swiss border, the French Reich. Since October, it has post office. New Vorfc N.Y, under claim. The Nazis back their returned, without FOB charges, the act of Mar 3. 1878 "Me future is settled, Willie. I'm gonna be a periessor on types of artillery into pockets along the more than $300,000 worth of cap- Vol. 1. No. 128 European soil." frontier and then fire. The tured ammunition. Thursday, Nov. 23, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIFES SPORTS Page 3 Puck 'n' Goalie Hit Net Once Over Georgia Tech to Play Cadets Retain Tulsa in Orange Bowl AP Poll Lead; lightly MIAMI, Nov. 22.—Bill Alexan- der's Georgia Tech eleven will ——— By Gene Graff face Tulsa, coached by Henry Navy Second Sports Editor Frnka, in the Orange Bowl here ACK CARBERRY, sports editor New Year's Day, the sponsoring NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Navy J of the Denver Post, didn't think committee announced today. which scuttled Purdue, 32-0, in its patriotism would be such a costly Last year Tech beat Tulsa, 20-18, final tuneup for the annual service gesture when he offered to give up in the Sugar Bowl at New classic against Army a week hence, his pressbox seat for today's Colo- Orleans. jumped from third to second place rado-Denver football game to the Georgia Tech is the only team —right behind the Cadets—in the purchaser of $50,000 in War Bonds. in the nation to have played in Associated Press' weekly poll of Bu' last night Carberry was slink- all three major bowl games. football writers. ing through Denver streets, trying The Yellowjackets stopped Cali- Randolph Field's sturdy band of to conceal his blushing face and fornia in the Rose Bowl in '29; Ail-Americans and pros skidded also looking for a philanthropist they tripped Missouri in the from the second to fourth slot, de- who could be induced to buy $75,- Orange Bowl in '40, and lost spite a convincing 58-0 romp over 000 worth of bonds. to Texas in the Cotton Bowl Southwestern. Ohio State's un- Carberry, who will set up his two years ago. beaten all-civilian eleven, which fin- typewriter this afternoon in the ishes its campaign Saturday against grandstand near one of the goal- Michigan, hurdled over Randolph lines, neglected to reckon with his Field to occupy third place. past when he announced the mag- Raiders Tackle The Trojans of Southern Califor- nanimous offer. But Alfred J. Bon- nia, virtually certain to represent field, a Denver banker who came the Pacific Coast in the Rose Bowl, up with the 50 Gs, didn't, and that's MaroonsToday appeared among the. top ten for when the trouble began. A GI Turkey Day gridiron dish the first time this season, being ^ ALLANT Mr. Bonfield presented will be served up to furloughing eighth on the week's hit parade. the. expensive pasteboard to one combat troops and permanent per- The first ten teams, with first of his girl employees. Not because sonnel in Paris this afternoon when place votes and total votes: he didn't want to see the game him- the Engineer Raiders play the En- 63% 5 761 self, but because he remembered Ranger Goalie gineer Maroons at the Red Star 5 726 Carberry had led a successful cam- Ken McAuley Olympic Stadium. Kickoff time is ny3 690 paign last year to have women 2 PM. Balnbridge Naval *% 412 (above) sits inside 0 392 barred from the sacred confines of The rival squads carry plenty of the cage after fail- Iowa Pre-Flight 2 316 the pressbox. weight. The Raiders average. 187 Southern California... 1 242 ing to stop the pounds per man, the Maroons 183. 3 184 Unless a better offer is received 0 141 before game-time, Carberry not puck sticked by Ex-collegians who will play for the only will have to copl his heels in Herb Cain, of Bos- Raiders are: Calvin Allison, end, the grandstand—he'll see a pretty ton, during a me- Oklahoma Aggies; James Zell, half- back, California (Pa.) Teachers, female face every time he glances lee in front of the Tulsa Opposes and Sam Gvozdich, another back, toward the press section. And all net. Game ended because he wanted to lend a hand St. Francis (Pa..) College. in selling bonds. in 5-5 tie. Left, Capt. Alvis E. Taylor, former Razorbacks "I want someone to bid $75,000," Walter "A n t s" Texas U. gridder, coaches the Ma- Carberry moaned last night, "and Atanas, rookie roon eleven, while the Raiders are NEW YORK, Nov. 22. — Tulsa, 1 want it to be a man who will sit Ranger right wing piloted by Capt. John A. Frapwell, which today accepted a bid to play there himself." who spends his of New York. Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl, fTTHE homefront experts who summers working The lineups: is the host to Arkansas' Razor- MAROONS RAIDERS backs in the feature game of a prognosticate for The Stars in a restaurant, Mellett le Allison and Stripes each week during the practices his off- brief Thanksgiving Day collegiate Drsort it Orth football program. football season are vacationing season vocation Krassnoski ig Andreassen over Thanksgiving Day, so well across the street Delozier ..c. Lees Other games scheduled for to- Kieler rg Matyas morrow are Kansas at Missouri in have to crawl out on a limb to from Madison Klimek .rt Baur a Big Six headliner, Wake Forest "assist" GIs who like to bet on foot- Square Garden. Clem re Turner ball games. Wojcik qb Toth at South Carolina, Colorado at Pudlowski in Gvozdich Denver and Drake at Wichita. For gullible people only, this Paulaskas rh Zell is how today's games look from Dinnocenzo fb.. Klenoski here: Canucks Whip Bruins, 4-1, Army-Navy Is Sellout Tulsa 27, Arkansas 7. Browns Sign Pitcher BALTIMORE, Nov. 22. — The Missouri 7, Kansas 6. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22. —The St. Maryland War Finance Committee Wake Forest 19, South Carolina 0. To Tie for Hockey Lead Louis Browns have signed South- ennounced today, just 24 hours after Colorado 13, Denver 7. paw Clyde Humphrey, formerly the mail order ticket sale began, Drake 40, Wichita 13. BOSTON, Nov. 22.—The Montreal Canadiens collected with Dallas of the Texas League. that the supply of tickets for tl-.e Humphrey, 32, recently was given Army-Navy football game here two goals in each of the second and third periods here last a medical discharge from the Dec. 2 had been exhausted. Tickets DiMaggio Denies night to defeat the Boston Bruins, 4-1, and gain a first Army. sold for $4.80 each. place tie in the National Hockey He's Up for CDD League with the idle Toronto Maple Leafs. Goal-Line Scramble On Return to NY Although he failed to score, Bill Plan Olympic Cowley, veteran Boston forward, re- NEW YORK, NOV. 22. — S/Sgt. mained knotted for the scoring lead Joe DiMaggio, former New York with Gus Bodnar of the Leafs. Games in '48 Yankee outfielder who enlisted in Hockey Standings NEW YORK, Nov. 22—Sigfrid February, 1943, W L T Pts G OG is in town, but Toronto 8 2 0 16 48 33 Odstron, Swedish industrialist and he refused to Montreal 8 2 0 16 41 23 acting chairman of the Interna- Detroit 5 3 1 41 26 tional Olympic Committee, here on comment on his Boston 2 6 1 30 46 presence. New York 15 2 24 41 business, said today his group hopes DiMaggio de- Chicago X 1 0 32 49 to hold a meeting next year or in nied he was up Leading Scorers 1946 to formulate plans for" the re- sumption of the Olympic Games for a CDD and G A Pts refused to com- Cowley, Boston 6 12 18 in '48. Bodnar, Toronto 4 14 18 Odstron said the United States, ment on his Schriner, Toronto 11 6 17 Sweden, Finland and Switzerland hospitalization Carr, Toronto 7 9 16 8 8 16 were being considered as possible in the Hawaiian Blake, Montreal Smith, Chicago 4 8 12 sites for the games which were last Islands and in held in Berlin in 1936. If the U.S. California. He Va. State vs. Morgan is still at war with Japan, Odstron said he had no Joe DiMaggio pointed out, the games could not plans about re- For Negro Grid Title be held there, according to Olym- joining the Yankees. pic rules. Ed Barrow, Yankees' president, GREENSBORO, N.C., Nov. 22.— declared he knew nothing about the Virginia State became the leading slugger's plans or whereabouts, add- contender for the Negro Intercol- Fight Pilot Fined ing he had not heard from Di- legiate Athletic Association foot- HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 22.— Maggio since he went overseas. ball championship by defeating the Boxing Commissioner Frank Cos- Greensboro Aggies, 25-0, in its last key today fined Tommy Die, man- game. ager of featherweight Cabey Lewis, Gridders pile up as Bill Paschal of the New York Giants carries the Help Wanted Virginia State and Morgan Col- $50 for claiming publicly that Lewis ball to Boston's one-inch line and, with a hand on the goal post, tries lege, both undefeated in league had been short-counted out of a to haul himself the rest of the way. Teammate Len Calligaro plowed —AND GIVEN competition, will meet for the title kayo victory over Champion Willie across on the next play for the first touchdown as the Giants over- Write your question or problem to in December, Pep here last week. powered the Yanks, 31-0. Help Wanted, The Stars and Stripes. Paris, France, APO 88J. Li'l Abner By Courtesy of United Features. APOs WANTED /SGT. Bernard Labesque; Sgt. Edward S Lassen, N.Y.; Capt. Leo P. Le Gault; Cpl Harry V. Lewis, 33134395; Lt. Martha McCIung, Philadelphia; William McKeon, Cohoes, N.Y.; Lt. William Mahon, Spring- field, Ohio; Cpl. Vincent Maino, Bronx; Capt. James L. Mehaffey; M/Sgt. Thomas A. Messer; Capt. David Miller; Pvt. John W. Miller, 35914198; Ma]. Paul Moore; Maj. Robert L. Moore, New Castle, Pa.; M/Sgt. Porter Nelson, Lawrenceville, DX; Capt. Woodrow E. Nichols, Fresno. Cal. AC Prances O'Boyle Chicago; Pvt. W Eleanor M. O'Neil, Philadelphia; Pvt. John C. Ornelas, 37107959 ; Pvt. Peter Ovian, Worcester, Mass.; Pvt. Otis D. Parker, New Waverly, Tex.; Capt. Leonard Pepper, Daytona Beach; Pvt. Henry Pip- kin, Bay Minette, Ala.; Pvt. Ernest Ri- vera; Lt. Jessie Koberts, Waco, Tex.; Lt. Fredrlch Robertson; Lt. Augusta Robins, Nauvoo, Ala.; Lt. Mary Francis Rufener, Little Rock; Monty Rybicki. Thursday, Nov. 23, 1944 Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Some More Tired Old Supermen Plenty Smokes Pipe the W AC Rationed Arms Sent Overseas, Costing Lives, Is WD Claim Says Roosevelt By Carl Larsen Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Presi- s Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—A War dent Roosevelt said yesterday that Department official expressed the American soldiers' lives had been view today that any cigarette short- lost because of the necessity of ra- age in the ETO was due to dis- tioning shells in Europe and joined tribution problems within the thea- in Gen. Eisenhower's urgent plea ter rather than to any procurement for increased production. snafu on this side. Soon after Eisenhower declared "There are sufficient cigarettes that he and his soldiers want "more going over, there's no question supplies than we are getting," the about that," said the official, who President discussed the situation at declined to be quoted by name. his news conference. It is perfectly "What happens after they get there clear, he said, that not enough is another matter." shells are being sent to the other The official added that no large side, that rationing resulted and cigarette cargo had been lost in this had been costly in life transit and expressed the opinion Urges War Workers Remain that priority given to the unload- Part of the trouble, the President ing of munitions rather than ci- said, is that -people are quitting garettes might have resulted in "a jobs in war plants because they certain piling up" of shipments. want to get into civilian production 'An Unsolved Mystery' as a hedge against post-war un- employment. Asking workers to At the same time the New York Cpl. Josephine Cebula newspaper PM said that "what hap- stay on war jobs, Mr. Roosevelt ex- pens to cigarettes set aside for ship- pressed the opinion that conversion ment to the armed services is one WA C Blows Cigarette from war production to civilian of the unsolved mysteries of the production will be much quicker war." Troubles Away With than most people expect. Chair- It cited Internal Revenue Bureau Pipefuls of Tobacco man J. A. Krug of the War Produc- figures as showing that 53,000,000- tion Board revealed that Eisen- hower, while still charting his 000 cigarettes, more than one-fourth When WAC Cpl. Josephine of the total U.S. production, were drive on Germany, had sent word Cebula didn't get any cigarette to production officials: "You tell withdrawn from warehouses in the rations last week she started smok- first seven months of 1944 for the us what you can deliver and we'll ing a pipe. The tobacco was given tell you when the war will end." armed forces. Figuring 5,000,000 by a friend who had saved a couple "We have tried to tell him," Krug Exhausted German prisoners of war, worn out trying to halt the of extra packages. said. "He has used the informa- "I've been getting a lot of kidding Russian armies' advance toward the Reich, stolidly await shipment Officials Here Blame tion to plan the attack. Now it is to internment camps. By September, the Red Army had captured but I don't mind," Cpl. Cebula said up to us to make good." Scarcity of Gift Kits between puffs. "I enjoy smoking 41 Nazi generals and hundreds of thousands of Wehrmacht troops. and I can't get cigarettes so this Labor, Industry to Aid Ex-GIs A Com Z official in Paris last is the next-best, thing." night denied that the shortage The pipe is a small model with a WEIRTON, W.Va., Nov. 22 (ANS). Jeeves' Creator was due to distribution problems stem three-inches long. The bowl —The Weirton Steel Co. and Weir- Rhine Sighted within the Theater. The official holds about a cigarette-full of ton Independent Union have estab- stated: tobacco. lished a veterans' bureau at the By 7th Army Jailed in Paris "The cigarette shortage is due Cpl. Cebula works at the com- Weirton steel plant to handle the mand desk in the file room of re-employment of service personnel. to the lack of RAC gratuitous (Continued from Page 1) P. G. Wodehouse, 65, British au- kits which have been the means Com Z Ordnance section. Before thor and creator of the fictional of supplying combat soldiers enlisting 19 months ago, she was Teamsters End Strike German border at that point. At a number of places along the butler "Jeeves," was under arrest in with smokes. These kits have a hat-check girl at Toots Shor's BOSTON, Nov. 22.—More' than Paris last night, The Stars and not arrived in sufficient quanti- restaurant in Ne- ■ York. Seventh's advance, organized Ger- 2,000 striking truckdrivers voted to- man opposition was falling apart Stripes learned. French police said ties from the United States and day to return to work, ending a Wodehouse was to be "provision- as a result it has been necessary into pockets of resistance. nine-day walkout. The strike arose West of Saverne, the 44th Divi- ally" released. His wife, who was to draw upor. cigarette bulk Eschweiler... from an AFL intra-union dispute. sion advanced eight miles north- apprehended with him, was freed stocks of the Army Exchange east of Siewiller, 10 miles north- yesterday morning. Service to supply the combat (Continued from Page 1) east of Sarrebourg, while the 100th troops." Wodehouse was arrested at 1 AM Division met a counter-attack civilians—four women and five men. 40 Yanks... Monday at his hotel on charges, ac- men overseas, this total would pro- thrown in to cover German with- cording to the Director of the French The civilians said, as German civ- (Continued from Page 1) vide more than 49 cigarettes a day drawals. The 103rd Division enter- Judiciary Police, that he volunteered vies always do, that SS and Ges- ed Marzeloy, north of St. Die, and per man. In addition, friends and tapo had beaten the men, women to broadcast five "propaganda" Germans out from west of the the 36th Division neared the. Bon- relatives have purchased many car- and children in an effort to make speeches over the German radio tons in retail stores to send over- Meuse, when it was assigned to pro- homme pass. during his internment. them leave and that about 3.000 tect the right flank of the British In Lorraine, the Third Army's seas. . stayed behind, hiding in cellars and Proviso of the release was that Second Army. 90th Division cut across the Ger- Cigarette production currently is some m nearby woods, Wodehouse leave France before at its highest level in history, PM i particular group had been In Holland, the division's armor man border after about a ten-mile j Tn s was stretched precariously thin gain northeast of Metz. Dec. 1. Otherwise, police stated, he reported. On the basis , of produc- told to leave by a Jerry Looie, but would be placed under permanent tion figures for the first seven he left before he could see whether over a 22-mile sector around Meiiel. All Resistance Ends . On Oct. 27 the Nazis aimed a coun- "surveillance.". months of 1944, the year's total j the order had been carried out. Stars & Stripes Correspondent ter-attack squarely against the U.S. production should reach 329,000,- 1 And again, like all Jerrries, they Earl Mazo with the Third Army 000,000, some 20,000,000,000 more said they had been waiting anxious- sector. reported that Metz was officially j The attack was launched against than last year. j ly for us to come since they knew turned over to French authorities Tigers'. . v the town of Meijel, held by 43 men yesterday morning by Maj. Gen. The newspaper also said that ; the war was lost. This line of talk in all. Against them came rushing only a negligible proportion of U.S. didn't gather any great amount of Walton H. Walker, XX Corps Com- (Continued from Page 1) 200 German inantrymen, backed mander, and at 1435 hours all re- cigarette production is sent abroad sympathy from the interrogator, by Tiger and Panther tank forma- for customers other than U.S. Cpl. Joseph Rafelli, of New Yoric sistance in the city ceased with a passing jeep and occupants of tions. the surrender of Germans in the the jeep. troops and that "it is not true that City, who has seen "too damned While the Americans were hold- Moselle River islands. In one small field by a road block the shortage was caused by lend- much damage and death caused ing there, the Nazis' major of- lease or other exports." by the Jerries," he said. Mazo said that several forts out- engineers uncovered more than 150 fensive developed to the north at side the city, including Driant, still mines. During the first part of the Heitsk. held out. advance one armored engineers lieu- When the Seventh moved away On the U.S. First Army front tenant commanding, a platoon in after this engagement Lt. Gen. Col. Roosevelt Saved Gls northeast of Aachen infantry the 55th Eng. Bn., enraged by the Dempsey wrote to Maj. Gen. Lind- cleared Eschweiler, Durwiss and say M. Sylvester, commander of the danger to his men of German mines, Lohn, and gained along the entire ordered the Gls into ditches and division since its activation in From MPs, Civvie Charges front, but fighting was stubborn went alone ahead of the tanks with March, 1942: on the army's right flank in the a mine detector. Later he rode the ".. . You were heavily outnum- Hurtgen Forest, Stars and Stripes bered, but by holding firm as you lead tank of the column and at NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—A civil- after a quick word with the major, Correspondent G. K. Hodenfield re- every suspicious spot stopped and ian's statement that an Army of- leaving the major with me. When did, you gave me time to bring up ported from Germany. necessary reserves. I appreciate jumped off to work the mine de- ficer he identified as Col. Elliott the MPs arrived, I heard the major tector ahead of the tanks. say, 'Keep this quiet. A son of the the high fighting qualities which Roosevelt, second son of the Presi- British Scientist Dies With columns of the division dent, intervened in a early morn- President is involved.' Then the your division showed." major got away, fast." But greater praise came from the CAMBRIDGE, Eng., Nov. 22 (Reu- branching off at one point, the ing Broadway brawl over a taxicab German radio. German forces, ter).—Sir Arthur Eddington, 61, a signal men had a hellish time. and enabled four soldiers , to leave The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where Roosevelt had been staying since Berlin said, were engaged in "very leading authority on the application They worked a straight 36 hours, before MPs arrived, was under in- of Einstein's theory of relativity laying over 300 miles of telephone vestigation today by Army authori- his arrival a week ago from Britain, heavy fighting with numerically superior forces." died today. lines alone. ties. said he had checked out. Max Huddle, floor manager of a By Courtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff dance hall, said he fought the sol- Terry And The Pirates diers for 20 minutes after they dragged him from a taxicab which, FwHAT GOOD IS ALL THIS WHILE TERRY TALKS WITH FLIPCCRKIN AND WILLOW CIVILIZATION .WHEN YOU'RE SITS ALONE IN A HOTEL ROOM IN THE NEARSV orv... he said, they wanted to use. LONELY?... I^YAS ABLE "I was still holding my own when TO ENDURE THAT TEMPLE 616 JANE, VOU HAVEN'T \ GOLLY, NO, a taxi drove up and two officers IM THE JUNGLE — BUT THEN SAID A WORD SINCE WE ] JANE - BUT 1 got out," Huddle said. "One was I HADNT MET BURMA AND LEFT THE POST-ARE YOU/ EARNED Col. Elliott Roosevelt and the other ARMY AIR FORC FURLOUGH I TALKING was a major whose name was not TURN -AND learned. "The major took hold of me while Roosevelt pushed the soldiers aside and told them to scram. I moved toward the colonel to protest, but the major put his hand on my shoulder and said I was under ar- rest. Just then someone in the crowd said the MPs had arrived. "The colonel got into i*» ,^b