New York London Edition Paris Daily German Lesson Daily French Lesson Wohin gehen Sie? THE sTA Indiquez-moi le chemin Voheen gayhen Zee? TRIPES AndeeK AY moa lub sh'MAN Where are you going? Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations Show me the way VOL. 5 No. 47—Id. THURSDAY, Dec. 28, 1744 German Drive May Be Stopp • d The Gasoline Got There—But It Must Be Destroyed Americans Retake 2 Towns at Western Extreme of Salient Doughboys, fighting bitterly in the biting cold of Belgium and on the snow- covered hills of Luxemburg, appeared last night to have stopped the German counter-offensive within four miles of the Meuse and some 50 miles inside Belgium. Dispatches from SHAEF and from the Western Front—covering activities up to Tuesday afternoon—reported that U.S. troops had retaken the towns of Ciney and Celles, which previously had been reported as the extreme western ends of the German stab into the U.S. lines. Both lie about four miles to the east of Dinant, which is on the Meuse. U.S. troops also were reported still holding out at Bastogne, a road junction around which German armor and in- fantry moved westward when they failed to take it. Relief troops battling their 600 Heavies Hit way toward Bastogne from the south were reported within five miles of it on a strong 4-mile front, and a late Reuter Again at Rails dispatch from U.S. 1st Army Head- Striking again to disrupt and choke off quarters said that one U.S. Army vehicle had broken through the German ring U.S. Arm, Signal Corps l'111710 the supply channels which feed Rund- stedt's forces, over 600 Fortresses and around the town and reached the U.S. Precious gasoline—for the want of which American troops bogged down in Germany troops in it. — Vignette of War —has to be poured into the dirt, as doughboys of an armored infantry battalion Liberators of the Eighth Air Force, flying grimly go about the business of destroying their gasoline depot to keep it from in favorable weather and unopposed by Material relief was carried to the men falling into the hands of advancing Germans somewhere near the front line. the Luftwaffe, hammered marshalling at Bastogne, however, by C47s which The Leech yards and rail bridges in western Ger- fought their way through German flak and many yesterday. fighter opposition to drop medics and Saves a Life However, a lone fighter outfit, the supplies for them. Trapped Germans Waging 364th Mustang Group, led by 'Lt. Col. The ground forces were being given NEW DELHI, Dec. 27 (UP)—A U.S. strong tactical air support, British rocket- fighter-pilot, Lt. Greenlaw Collins, kept John H. Lowell, of Denver, Colo., re- ported encountering up to 300 enemy firing Typhoons knocking out German himself alive for more than six weeks Suicide Battle jos r Budapest tanks with such pinpoint accuracy that by eating leeches after he had bailed out fighters southeast of Bonn and shooting down at least 29. U.S. tankers, close by, got out of their into the Burma jungle. MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (AP)—Soviet shock troops were battering surrounded tanks to cheer the passing planes. Reports It was July 29 when Collins bailed out. and flame-seared Budapest from cast and west today while the trapped Capt. Ernest E. Bankey Jr., a 364th indicated that the Luftwaffe had had to Unarmed, for more than six weeks he German garrison burned military stores, dynamited public utilities and fought pilot from Toledo, Ohio, claimed the de- struction of 5} Nazi craft. abandon its own tactical support of the wandered in the jungle. By day he lived back grimly with field artillery scattered through the doomed city. German drive in order to fight off Me on the leeches, by night they lived on Escorted by approximately 400 Mus- Allied air forces, which had evidently Russian tanks and tommy-gunners, directed by Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin, tangs and Thunderbolts, the heavies him. charged down from the snowy western wrought such havoc on the supply lines On Sept. 6, a native runner brought a pounded Euskirchen, Andernach, Hom- hills above the capital and penetrated burg, Fulda and Gerolstein—targets on note to an Army officer. It read: some distance into Buda, on the west "Somewhere in hell. I am the pilot the east-west rail lines leading into the B29s Hit Tokyo bank of the Danube. The situation in battle area and on the north-south route who crashed.... I need a pair of shoes, Pest. 'on the east hank. was less clear. quinine, socks, cloth, sulphur for boils from Mainz to Cologne which feeds the though an unconfirmed French broadcast smaller east-west routes. and infections rotting my limbs off. claimed "most of Pest" was occupied. Thanks for whatever you can do." In Day Assault Eighth losses were five heavies and four Superforts—estimated Marshal Rodion Malinowsky is in com- An air rescue party sent a glider-pilot Saipan-based mand of the Pest attack. pursuits, two of which were believed to parachuting down with a portable radio. by the Japanese at 50—were over Tokyo have landed in friendly territory. By amazing luck he found Collins, and yesterday in a daylight attack at indus- Meanwhile, the Russians continued to RAF Lancasters also attacked rail more officers were sent to administer first trial targets. battle west of the Hungarian capital on facilities in daylight yesterday, blasting aid. More than 1,500 tons of bombs have the roads to Austria, with Bratislava 80 the railway center of Rheydt in the A week later Collins, a living sketetoa, been dropped on targets in Japan, Brig. and Vienna 100 miles away. No details Cologne area. were given. was carried out. Gen. Heywood Hansel! Jr., head of 21st Up till noon yesterday, Ninth Air Force Bomber Command, disclosed yesterday in Moscow sources estimated 100,000 fighter-bombers. flew 300 sorties, smashing a report on B29 action in the month end- German and Hungarian troops were at German transport, armored columns Trench Foot Licked, ing Christmas Eve. Several large alr.:raft trapped in Budapest when the Reds and communications for the fifth straight factories have been knocked out, 1--e reached Esztergom last night, cutting the day. Five enemy planes were destroyed The Army Claims Meanwhile, the Jap campaign to cripple last escape route. The Germans admeted and five damaged. the Saipan airfields from which the huge 50,000 SS and Wehrmacht men were in Near Liege, the towns of Schleiden and WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (ANS)—The bombers take off continued when 25 the capital. Army reported today a Western Front Huppentroisch were dive-bombed. Forty- enemy planes appeared over the island. Russian planes and artillery have been six buildings were destroyed and 16 more feeding the German drive that some Ger- victory—over trench foot, the disease that Three were brought down, a communique pounding Budapest incessantly. man armor was being abandoned for lack can knock a soldier out of combat as damaged. Rail yards at Prumberg, Geld- from Pearl Harbor announced. bach and Kalmesweilen, all cast of of fuel. effectively as a bullet. American heavies yesterday continued Since the start of the German drive, 11 At one time the disease afflicted 17,500 Merzig, and Schalkenmerhen, east of their raids on Clark Field, on the out- Nazis in Surprise Attack Prum, also were attacked. days ago, the tactical air forces claimed troops-9.82 men out of every 1,000 on skirts of Manila. Thirty-nine of about to have destroyed 439 German planes, the Western Front. This has been cut Latest reports indicated 196 motor 50 interceptor planes were shot down, Against 5th Army transport vehicles and 40 tanks and probably destroyed 55 and damaged 121; 75 per cent, Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters an- and to have destroyed 2,228 transport The Army enforced precautionary German forces have launched a heavy armored vehicles destroyed or damaged, nounced. and '21 gun positions silenced. vehicles and damaged 1,054. In Washing- measures, taught treatment, increased The Navy Department announced in surprise attack against the 5th Army ton, the War Department announced that supplies of footwear and alerted soldiers Washington that American submarines along the Serchio River valley in western 13,273 Germans had been taken prisoner to the danger of the disease, which results had stink 27 more Jap vessels, including Italy. reports from Allied headquarters French Assembly Votes during the drive. from prolonged exposure of the feet to one large aircraft carrier. in Italy said yesterday. Allied troops There were indications in some dis- cold and moisture. Sixty days' hospitali- were forced to withdraw from forward Confidence in deGaulle patches that for the first time since the positions to their main line defenses. zation is the average recovery time. Execute 8 in French 'Gestapo' PARIS, Dec. 27 (Reuter)—The French Germans started rolling back into Bel- Allied planes were out in force attack- consultative assembly ended a secret gium the U.S. forces had taken the offen- Record Auto Plant Output PARIS. Dec. 27 (Reuter)—Eight of ing German communications and giving session today with a unanimous vote of sive, and that the Germans had been DETROIT. Dec. 27 (Reuter)—The the nine French "Gestapo" men sentenced close support to the ground troops. confidence in the deGaulle government. forced onto the defensive, with losses of U.S. auto industry turned out a reiord to death by the Paris court for dealings armor from destruction and lack of fuel armament production in 1944, putting out with the enemy were shot at Fort Mont- being so great that they had to throw in 59,320,000,000 worth of material-8 rer ronge near Paris this morning. The ninth War-Born, War- Worn infantry in place of tanks. cent above last year's figures. man will not suffer the death penalty. Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was reported to have committed more than The Executor 20 divisions, including ten armored divi- sions, drawing on reserves hoarded for the battle of the Reich. Heavy fighting was reported at various Death Halves a Team, Then places along the front, with no changes in 'the line, however. One large tank battle was reported north of LaRoche, Cuts Pal Out of Buddy's Will and other battles were reported in the Ed Lawrence magazine writer from Washington, D.0 sector between Marche and Slavelot. By became an inseparable team. If one were Farther north, in the Aachen territory, Stars and Stripes Sett! Writer given a mission, the other accompanied according to German reports, British WITH SECOND ARMORED DIVI- him. When they went on pass, it was Second Army troops were said to have SION, Germany, Dec. 27—They were together. replaced U.S. 9th Army troops in the line. buddies for a long time by war standards "They were good reconnaissance men —a year and a half through the North because they always wanted to know what African, Sicilian and Normandy cam- was going on and would go anywhere to Stettinius Denies Soviet paigns. And one fixed it so that even find out," their former commander said. Is Giving Up Lend-Lease after his death he could do one more favor The infantrymen who captured Messina in for his pal. Sicily found them drinking beer in a cellar WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (ANS)— They met in a spearhead -killer" out- where they had taken cover from Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius fit, the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance American shelling. Jr. denied today a report in the National Battalion, in the Mediterranean Theater, A few months ago the Germans broke AssocEation of Manufacturers News that aid found they had something in common. up the combination by hitting Eustis when the Soviet Union was withdrawing from Their mothers had become fast friends he was riding with a force attacking Dom- Lend-Lease agreements at. the end of long before at a national convention of front. He was pulled out of the tank by present commitments. Stettinius said the the Better Gardens Club. his buddy and died on the way to the U.S., Russia, Britain and Canada were Capt. Frank H. Jordan Jr., of Pulaski, hospital. working out a new schedule of Lend= Va.. was then a lieutenant and already Some weeks later. Jordan heard from Lease operations. had won his battle spurs. He and a the executor of his comrade's estate. sergeant swam ashore in the African Eustis had willed him 55,000 toward the Dietrich Out of Films Invasion, talked two Arabs out of their purchase of a law library for which burnooses, roamed through enemy terri- Jordan, a recent law ,graduate. had been For Duration, Paris Says tory armed only with two grenades and saving. An additional bequest specified PARIS, Dec. 27 (UP)—Marlene smeared a machine-gun nest. Before they "four cases of high-class Scotch whisky_" Dietrich has announced that she would rejoined their unit they found a leaderless The Germans spoiled that. ton. Shortly 0.S. dress Signal Cotes Moro give up her film career for the duration, U.S. infantry company which the lieu- afterward the captain and his men A child—innocent heir to (he world's misfortunes, judging from the lack of compre- according to French press reports which tenant commanded in combat for Iwo stormed a German artillery emplacement hension in her eyes—stares out a war-wracked countryside. Streams of refugees, quoted her as saying: "1 have decided days. and smashed it up. He was killed in the of which this group is representative, are flowing from the region where Nazi troops to devote myself entirely to entertaining He and Lt. Morton C. Eustis, a fray advanced. Ibis evacuated group is shown awaiting shelter arrangements. tl-ose who are far from their homes." Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944

THE STARS AND STRIPES An Editorial Printed 01 The Timm Publishing C0111112Dy. Ltd.. for U.S. Armed forces. ander atopices of TM okyiks oformation nod Education Division, Special and -Wash Information Services, ETOUSA. Contents passed by the U.S. Army and Nary Let's Close the Ranks censors; subscription 26 shillings per year plus Fun in the big city. Climbing into the postage. ETO edition. Entered as ;grand (14.11 matter Mar. 15. 1943. as the post office, New trailer of one of these velo taxis, a GI York. N.Y.. under the Act of Mar. 3, 11179. All material appearing in lhlr publication has been was pedalled around Gay Farce. He NLY yesterday lots of folks mitten and edited by uniformed members 01 the stopped at his destination, finished his —front-line sloggers ex- Army and Naue except Where slated that a business and got ready to make the return civilian or other outside source Is being quoted. cepted—bad the war in the Zelitorial oflIce—Tho Times. Flintiest Home Su.. trip. When the driver told him the amount London. F.C4 (Tel. Ceti. 2000). Business and of his fare thus far, the GI screamed, bag. It was all over but the shout- circulation onkel-37 Upper Brook St., London. WI (Tel. ETOUSA 64161. District °Mem: "You hop in the trailer—I'll pedal you. ing. Of shoutin gthere was plenty. Redford 2184; Swindon 3424; Sutton ColdfleLl back to where we came from!" —Pour Oaks 268. * * Vol. 5, No. 47, December 28, 1944 * Overheard in an office. "How dare you Greece—• British battle ELA S. kiss me. I won't stand for things like Italy—a fuss about Sforza for foreign minister. Brussels — a power play keeps Premier Pierlot in the saddle. Montreal—a crisis on conscription. London—a hell of a stink about the Polish-Russian setup. Chicago—air conference The Last Lonely Soul lays an egg. Dec, 8, 1944 To the B-Bag: Unity and solidarity—strong Gripe, gripe, gripe—"When is a whra the United Nations were soldier who has served overseas as long militarily weak—was in a bad way. and hard as I going to be sent home?" That's all 1 hear from the hard-working With the German menace seem- T/5s in England to the doughboys wal- ingly smashed, dissension, selfish- lowing in mud in Germany. ness, suspicion—ihe costly, crim- Well, here's an infantry Cl who made inal luxuries of "peace"—replaced the invasion, saw it all, and is damned that—and besides, you forgot to loL.k the fed up with the amount of points he has. door." the earthly ideals for which we want to be the last lonely soul who fight. The guns could scarcely be leaves the ETO!—Richard Nuntley, Cpl. Mauery Campbell sez, "No one heard over the din of the diplo- Fourth Division Infantryman. pays much attention to apple skins, but mats, the noise of the negotiators, if it's a peach peeling—oh, boy!" the palaver of the politicians. Tail Gunner's Tale • * _* * * * Dec. 21, 1944 A mysterious lady in black just stepped To the B-Bag: up, slipped this verse in our hand and Well, the bugles of battle are Department versus flue Foreign many, which in this, its last great Listen Stars and Stripes, who in the hell left: heard again above the bickering. Office. Not the British Com- struggle, hurls the challenge: are you trying to impress with these A wolf is a guy with a glint in his eye The enemy lashes out in a last monwealth versus Communism. "United Nations, remain united or fantastic air stories? And a thought in the back of his head. bloody bid for victory. Once This Tail Gunner Taylor who pulled If you see him coming, you'd better start But all of us who believe in the die apart." himself back into the plane—wow! It's running. more the warning sounds—Ger- dignity of the common man— a lovely story and I'd even say a not The rest is much better unsaid. many. Nazis, Fascism are the against Germany! For the holy living love of God impossible feat to accomplish. But the * * * enemy. let's listen to the dead, Let's learn idea of the slipstream pulling him out is. The little Moron's daffynition of Here- * * * Germany—not yet done to death. from the living. Let's join ranks for us who also fly the big ones, quite dity. "Heredity means that if your Not Poles versus Russians. Not Germany—still worthy of all our again—against the foe and toward difficult to swallow. father didn't have any children and your British versus Greeks. Not the State strength and fire and fury. Ger- the future. Such heroic adventure is good stuff grandfather didn't have any children, you for the folks back home. But if you won't have any children." please, save it for them and spare us such * * * t ripe .—S ISgt. Irving Bergman, Tail Our spy on the Home Front says that A 'Londoner Looks at Paree Gunner. on the infiltration courses they're singing, Nazis Should Know Better "Crawl or Nothing At All." 8th AF Leads Dec. 11, 1944 * * * First Bombs in Months Fail to Get To the B-Bag: And up around the Siegfried Liiie the Being from one of the outfits that hit smash hit is "Come Out, Come Out All U.S. Units the Beach on D-Day, and later fought Wherever You Are." Paris Down, but It's Wondering in St. Lo, Brest, and Germany, I would * * Elysees district, Paris is hungry, and Iflte to point out that Jerry should be By George Maskin in Ace Totals And once upon a time there was 3 guy everywhere it's cold. Lack of coal has hated as much or more than the Jap, Star; and Stripes Staff Writer who went to a nudist camp on his fu-- made even hits of wood precious for the WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Eighth Air because the "master race- are supposed PARIS, Dec. 27—As the thuds of the scanty heat a wood fire may offer. For Force fighter pilots, as of Dec. IS, lead should know better to be civilized and first enemy bombs to strike in this area the poor, getting enough to cat is a prob- all U.S. air forces in the matter of aces, than to act as they do. .iews in months echoed ht their ears and lem that for most is daily unsolved The with 13 names on the honor roll of 34 Any man in my old outfit will telt you reports disclosed some German columns strain on what medical facilities are avail- USAAF pilots, each of whom has that nothing is too dirty for them to try. miles on the "return" road toward Paris, able is limay, and hunger and cold have destroyed 15 or more enemy planes in I've seen many of my buddies killed by a lot of rtitisians couldn't help but added to the toll of sickness and disease. combat, the War Department revealed methods that could only be conceived of wonder tool if Weltrmacht tanks a t.el On the surface, Paris may be gay. Beneath today. by maniacs. troops &Out would appear on local the veneer, its citizens are parsing through The complete list follows: Two medics wearing their arm bands streets. a winter already rough and rugged and Maj. Richard I, Bong, Poplar, Wis. (Fifth Arl, were shot in the buck while helping the The city last night had a 30-minute bound to get rougher. 38; Mai. Thomas B. McGuire. Sun Antonio, wounded, by snipers. They even booby alert during which hostile planes un- Tex. (Fifth AF), 30; Lt. Col. Francis S. Gabre- While any visual fears in the Parisians ski. Oil City. Pa. (Eighth AF). prisoner of war trap our dead when they have the chance. loosened their loads. It was disclosed are absent, the city has made certain the in Germany, 28; Mai. Robert S. Johnson, Lawton. WAS a Maybe this will help some Cl who has officially that among the spots hit Nazis won't bust in and mess up details . Okla (Eighth AF). 27: Mai. George E. Freddy, not yet seen action.—S'Sgt. William R. hospital. The local police force has been bolstered. Greensboro. N.C. (Eighth AF), 24 ; Capt. Don S. White, Inf. Three persons were killed and 13 in- Gentile. Piqua, Ohio (Eighth AF), ; Maj. With them are strong detachments of Gerald T, Johnson, Eugene, Ore. (Fifth AF). 23 jured in the bombing, police reported. The Army MPs and guards, operating with a Mai. Fred J. Christensen Jr.. Watertown, Masi., DSB for the B-Bag bombs fell near world-famous landmarks. (Eighth AFT. 22: Col. Neel E. Kcarby. Dallas. Dec. 9, 1944 moresc rutinizing eye and protecting all Tex. (Fifth AF). missing in action. 23 : Col. Glenn and damaged several buildings as well as conv s. To the B-Bag: lough because he didn't want to see the oy E. Duncan. Houston. Tex. (Eighth AF). missing in the hospital. A "veteran" Londoner attempting to action, nil: Cant. John J. Volt. Goshen. Ohio We're not bitching, we are happy, but sight of a uniform. Outwardly, however, events of toe last wcigh the point as to which of the two (15th AF). 2t ; Maj. Walker M. Mahurin, Fort please print this letter anyhow! * * * two weeks have not changed life much in Wayne. Ind. (Eighth AF). 21 Mai. J. 1'. Robbins, Our hearts bleed for you, and you have cities—London or Paris—is closer to the Coolidge, Tex (Fifth AF). 21 ; Lt. Cot. Robert B. This is the story of the absent-minded Paris. Most the gaiety which returned our deepest sympathies. We have been war, superficially, at least, finds the scales Westbrook. Hollywood. Cal. (13th AF), 2(1, professor who became a lieutenant in the with the liberation still is prevalent, de- Col. Charles H. MooDonald, St. Petersburg. Fla. following your column and the various pretty much balanced. paratroopers. He unbuckled his parachute, spite some signs of the to-be-expected (Fifth AF). 70 Lt. Col. Thomas J. Lynch. Catasu- bitches contained therein concerning fly- London tins its bomb-scarred areas Q0(1. Pa. (Fifth AF). killed in action, 20; Cut. stepped out of the plane, counted three— tenseness arising over the changing war ing pay, combat pay, riding pay, and Here there are few. On the other hand, Hubert Zemke, Missoula, Mont. (Eighth AF). miss- and pulled his rank. scene. on the streets here you see mud-coated ing in action, 1912: Lt. Col. David C especially jumping pay for those poor, J. C. W. However, away from the Champs Traverse City. Mich. (Eighth AF), 19: Col, poor paratroops. Army trucks and Jeeps with no time to David L. H111. Victoria. Tex. (14th AF), 1812: We have a suggestion to make: Why pause for wash jobs rolling to or from the Capt. John T. Godfrey, Woonsocket. R.I. front. (Eighth AF). prisoner of war in Germany, 18; don't you bitch for bitching pay? You UP FRONT WITH MAULDIN Lt. Col. Herschel H. Green, Mayfield. Ky 115th have to read letters from those poor buys Gls less than a day from foxhole AF). IS; Capt. Duane W. Beeson. Eloise, Ida. who are not happy in the service. positions pile out as muddy and dirty as (Eighth Al'), Prisoner of war in Germans'. IS: In our humble opinion when 't comes the trucks which hauled them. Msj. Walker C. Beckham. Defuniak Springs. Ha. You spot weary, tired Americans with (Eighth AF). prisoner of war in Germany. lit; to gripes the chaplain leads an easy life Maj. Don. M. Becrbower. Hill City. Minn. (Ninth compared to yours. shoulder patches you remember from AF), killed in action, 17/2 : Capt. James S. Yar- The medals should be yours for "Dis- Loltdon and the days when a pass meant nell. Charleston, Tenn. (15th AF). 17; Capt. a rip snorting time along Piccadilly. The Cyril F Homer, Sacramento. Cal. (Fifth .AF), 17; tinguished Service to Bitchers." Maj, Edward Clang. Cascob. Conn. (Fifth Al'), pass today means something else to these missing in action, 17: Capt. Glen T. Eaplesaon. Our hats are off to you! ! The Stars men. and Stripes and Brod Crawford's "Listen Alhambra, cat. (Ninth AF), 1612: Lt. Col. William "Forty-eights" provide the GI we'. a M. Reed. Marion. Ia. (14th AF), Mai. Characters" program (on AFN) are the George S. Welch. Wilmington. Del. (Fifth Ar). two highlights of our day. hot bath, haircut and movie. He has 16: Lt. Col. Richard E. Turner, Bartlesville. Keep up the good work! none of that London "dashing spirit" the Okla (Ninth AV). 16; Maj, Samuel I. Brown, !—Some con- first night in town here. Second nights Tulsa. Okla (15th AF), 1512; Maj. Bill Horns. tented Fortress Gunners, M 'Sgt. Hogan, frequently are ditto. Springville. Cal. 113th AF). 15, and Capt. Richard TISgt. Lonigan, S 'Sgt. Shrade. SISgt. A. Peterson. Alexandria, Minn (Eighth AF), IS. Dyer. SISgt. McCarthy. Sgt. Jeanson, Sgt. Hartman, Sgt. Stadius, Sgt. Williams. AFN Radio Program Torch Singe—r Full Pay for Patients On Your Dial Dec. 12, 1944 1175 kc. 1402 ice. 1411 kc. 1430 kc. 1447 kc. To the B-Bag: 218.1 m. 213.9m. 212.6m, 211.3m. 207.3m. Swims Icy River May I contribute a paragraph to the Thursday, Dec. 28 B-Bag regarding hospital patients getting 1200—World News. 1205-1JuMe Bag. To Kindle Blaze their full pay while convalescing at 1300—Headlines—Sports News. hospitals in the U.K. 1305—Corporal Saddlebags. 1330—Blondie. And Expose Foe Since most Gis' service records follow 1400—Headlines--Visiting Hour. them to England after they have been 1500—Headlines—German Lesson. By John B. McDermott wounded, it seems only decent that 1505--Strike up the Band, United Press Correspondent 1530—On the Record. patients should get their full pay. 1630—Music We Love. WITH THE U.S. ARMIES, Dec, 27— Is the fact that it might cause some- 1700—Headlines—Showtiruc. The daring of Sgt. William Pierce. of body extra work the reason for denying 1715—Canada Swing Show. 1740—Melody Roundup. Winston Salem, NC., was revealed last full pay allowances to a man who is about 1755—American Sports New& night in the story of how he swam through to return to the hell he came from? 1800—World News. swirling, freezing water across a river near It's absolutely unfair for so many 1805—Mark up the Map. 1810—GI Supper Club. Stavelot, Belgium, to sot fire to houses patients back from the front to be broke 1900—Headlines—Hollywood Music Hall. which lighted up enemy positions. and trying to borrow money, simply 1930—Ray McKinley Orchestra. His outfit was defending the river because they do not receive their full 2000—Headlines—Combat Diary. 2015—Johnny Mercer's Music Shop, barrier against the German offensive. allowances.--Pyr. J. P.,—Army Hospital. 2030—Burns and Allen. 2100—World News. German SS troops tried to force the river, 2105—Soldier and a Song. and Pierce's men were having difficulty Irish or Ramblers 2115—Swing Sextet. seeing them in pitch blackness. Dec. 2130—Mystery Playhouse. 12, 1944. 2200—Headlines—Home News foam the U S.A. The Sergeant decided that if the posi- To the B-Bag: 2205—Listen Characters. tion were to be saved his men had to see Recently on The Stars and Stripes 2300—Final Edition. the enemy. He dived into the frigid Sports page you have referred to the Irish waters, dodged German bullets and of Notre Dame as the Ramblers. Friday, Dec. 29 0800—Headlines—Combat Diary. reached the far hank. Then he set fire I have never heard them called that 11815—Personal Album with Maxine Sullivan. to the house after sprinkling it with gaso- before, and 1 would he interested to know 0830—Music by Count Baste. line that he had carried across the river. if that is a former name for them or a 0900—World News. 0905--Songs by the Crcw Chiefs, The blaze outlined the Nazis, who then sports writer's error. 0925—AEF Ranch House. were riddled by fire from American rifle- Your paper is doing a great job.—Pfc 1000—Headlines—Morning After (Crosby Music men and machine-gunners. Pierce re- Richard A. Batusic, Army Hospital. Hail). 1030—Strike up the Band. turned safely. None of the enemy 'Either Irish or Ramblers is correct, 1100—Headlines—Home News front the U.S.A reached the American side of the river, our Sports Dept, says.—Ed.] "Able Fox Five to Able Fox. I got a target, but ya gotta be patient." I 105— Donk Bag. Job Front Bright Beyond Battle Haze

" .. when we assumed the role of soldier Today Industry Produces Shells, we did not lay aside the role of citizen." Not Washing Machines; But, When George Washington, 26 June, 1775 It's Over, You'll Be Employed By Jack Caldwell ()morrow Tomorrow Staff Writer NCREASED fierceness of fighting on the flaming Western Front empha- Vol. 1 No. 2 Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944 I sizes anew today's No. 1 job on both the battle and home fronts—that of kayoing the enemy. Reports from the States reveal no let-up in the nation's determination to meet growing war demands from both the Euro- pean and Pacific Theaters. Munitions and more munitions is the battle cry GI Hunters Foresee a Boom back home today.. It will be the same tomorrow and everyday until the final for furniture, rugs, textiles and other shot has been fired. household needs. In Civvy Life, Deer Back of this all-out production effort— To help supply the construction needs, but with no interference whatsoever with the forest industries look forward eagerly today's urgent needs—government, busi- to rehiring their loggers and mill And Shotguns, Not ness and labor leaders are planning for mechanics now serving Uncle Sam. the day when peace returns. When that The auto industry alone, says Alfred • Kraut and Mls time comes JOBS will be uppermost in the P. Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors minds of the guys now doing the fighting. Corporation, is gearing itself to meet an I N a forest a gang of doughboys expected demand for 6,000,000 cars a Many companies already have started started out to hunt boar during year for the first several years after the the ball rolling by rehiring their old war. That's about twice the pre-war their stay at a rest camp. employes honorably discharged from the They ended their sport junket by average and means many more workers services. One of these, International on the industry's payrolls. Harvester Company, has offered a job as picking off counter-attacking Ger- This ties in with the country's advance good or better than the one he left to mans. Even in the face of determined planning for new highway construction. each of its 1,316 former workers—includ- enemy assaults to crack our line the GI Official studies suggest that after the war thinks of post-war hunting. He knows ing many disabled men—already released private car traffic will increase ten per he will fall heir to a lot of war-tested by the armed forces who have applied cent from the pre-war level, with corre- equipment to making hunting even greater for re-employment. sponding sharp increases in truck and bus pleasure than it was before. traffic. Soldiers in the line, like their Dad's in Large and Small Other industries and agencies which World War 1, spend most of their time Both large and small industries, includ- these days aiming at Jerry, but they sight already are laying plans to take care of ing the giant Bethlehem Steel Company, returning Gls after it is all over include a lot of pleasure in the thought of hunt- are taking steps now for the rehiring of the following: ing game when they stack their carbine all their old employes and many new The electrical industry looks forward or crawl from their tank for the last time. ones to meet post-war demands for goods They have in their mind's eye deer, to re-employing its old employes and and commodities. Hundreds of cities and many new ones to meet the heavy post- bear, grouse, pheasant and other big and towns throughout the country also are small game at home. war demands of its consumers. Leonard pitching in to have jobs ready for their Kebler, chairman of War-Leonard Elec- Old, Familiar Gadgets returning citizens. trical Co., estimates a post-war commer- The Joe who learned to like outdoor The guys we'll be working for when we cial market for electrical supplies and life, the zest of living by his wits, will return our ODs to Uncle Sam aren't apparatus topping 125 million dollars a find some mighty familiar gadgets await- going into the future with their eyes closed year. And this. he says, is exclusive of ing him on the other side of the honor- and blindly handing out campaign pro- the lighting fixtures some four million able discharge line—gadgets such as mises of -jobs for everyone." For the residential homes and farms will order rifles and shotguns, Nylon pup tents, first time in history, they're gearing their when the war ends. down-filled sleeping bags, waterproof war-to-peace change over on careful suits and combat boots. Stuff that he advance planning to avoid any post-war Television and Planes knows by second nature because it is production and job hitches. War-time inventions and discoveries, helping him beat off the fanatical Economists agree the demand for civi- especially in air travel, communications Germans. lian goods and commodities after the war and the field of applied science generally, He will find that a semi-automatic car- will be enormous, and naturally enough. will open new job opportunities for re- bine is a terrific gun for deer hunting. For several years now Mars has had top turning vets. The end of World War II, And when it comes to strapping on a priority with the result the family jalopy says Lt. Gen. James G. 1-larbord, chair- light plywood pack for a three-day outing in most cases has either passed into the man of Radio Corporation of America, in the deer woods, Joe will assemble the beyond or is creaking with old age, home will mark the start of the age of television. pack with eyes closed and with one hand, repairs have been neglected and house- And on sky travel, Donald Douglas, while wife and family gape in proud sur- hold and personal needs have been president of Douglas Aircraft Co.. has prise. shelved for the duration. this to say: "Never before in the history The amphibious "weasel" will live up of aviation has there been such need for to its name, and those who have plenty `Deferred Demand' air transportation as exists today in time of the long green will discover the vehicle The same economists say the backlog of war and will be present tomorrow a sweet deal for duck hunting along of "deferred demand"—things folks back when peace comes." marshy hottomlands. hornewould like to buy but can't—will Legislation guaranteeing returning Won't Cost Much top the 25-million-dollar-mark by the servicemen their old jobs will solve the After the war it is a cinch that a great end of this year. Were all these wants to re-employment problem for many. Many deal of GI equipment will be sold on the be spread over a ten-year period, they other Gis prefer to enter government market for outdoor enthusiasts. The add, this demand alone would prove a work, particularly because of recent legis- Army stoves and flashlights, Nylon pup strong stimulant to the employment field. lation which waives age, height and tents. weapons converted to sporters' A recent War Production Board sur- weight requirements, besides giving other needs, camouflaged suits for sneaking up vey shows that Americans today are breaks to the ex-GI who will seek some on browsing buck deer or hiding in a ready to buy 3,900,000 washing of the 870,000 civil service jobs to be filled duck blind, all will he available for the machines ; 3,500,000 refrigerators ; during the first five years after the war. asking and a few dollars. 1,800,000 sewing machines and a like Loan provisions of the GI Bill of Most of the equipment is expected to number of vacuum cleaners; 2,400,000 Rights will enable many discharged ser- sell at low prices. toasters and 12,500,000 alarm clocks. vicemen to realize a lifetime ambition of Hunting and fishing licenses increased Add this to the hundred-and-one other bossing their own small businesses. A by 40 per cent after the last war because things the guys now sporting khaki and sharp decline in the number of retail so many GIs had learned to like the out- blue will want when they get home and stores and service trades since the war's doors. They wouldn't admit it as long you get some idea of the magnitude of as they were in uniform, but after they start heightens this opportunity. post-war production prospects—and jobs. Another 900,000 war veterans, accord: got back in civvies many of them began The nation's industrial and business to hanker for the wide open spaces—with- ing to an Army survey, will resume full- leaders have taken all this into considera- time schooling, while still others will take out an enemy across the gully. tion when they say that private enter-. Hunting -will have a great boost after up farming with the aid of government LIGHT, PLYWOOD PACKS (top) are in the war today, but in the peace-time prise is ready to meet the demand for loans. this war. When the boys swap ODs for a high level of employment as well as hunter's plaids the swales, upland woods period they will please go-light hunters. Blotched suits arc correct dress for All in all, the future looks proMising duck blinds. Amphibious weasel (bottom) will be ideal for marshland hunting productivity when the millions of and tidal marshes will resound to a Johnnies go marching home. to GI Joe. As Look Magazine sums up greatly increased cracking of guns. if you have the S55. the situation: Cupid and the stork will account for a large portion of the post-war market, "Today, the war-time labor shortage Afoot; especially in the construction industry. simplifies the question (of jobs); after Competition The nation's builders look forward to the final peace it may be different. But construction of 900,000 dwellings a year federal. state and local agencies, indus- Ladies Like Jobs ilepcold ahut Bcolutioutu) for several post-war years, This, along try and labor and hundreds of private MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP)— with industrial construction, will call for organizations are all working together; Another angle was pitched in the lively direct employment of some 2,100,000 and all have their eyes on the same question, "Will women work after the By Joseph Weehsberg men, they say. primary goal. war?" when the Northwestern Life Tomorrow Staff Writer This in turn will create jobs for an "Thus there is every reason for ser- Insurance Co. revealed that seven out of MERICA'S current No. 1 best seller is Kathleen Winsor's "Forever Amber," estimated 4,000,000 more workers in vicemen and their families to face the ten gals now employed may want to retain a luscious, 1,000-page Restoration England novel, with hot bedroom scene on supplying the necessary materials and many personal problems of demobiliza- their jobs because of current circum- A services, while countless other workers tion with confidence. America is not stances that did not exist in 1918-20. every other page. The movies have already paid $200,000 for the screen rights vill be needed for the resultant demand letting its new veterans down." The company's survey disclosed that and Macmillan, the publishers, declare to have another "Gone with the Wind" this high percentage of women may stay on their hands. . . . The reading public still goes all out for historical "escape" on their jobs primarily because they are voters—whereas they were not imme- fiction. W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge" and Lloyd C, Douglas' diately after the last war. The survey "The Robe" are still well toward the top of the best-seller list. Both are religious pointed out that since the women now books.. . . are voters, and will probably demand more political attention for their economic The theme of the returning veteran gets more and more space on the non-fiction needs, their interest in working will pick market. After Dixon Wecter treated the whole problem, from the days of the up. Revolution to the end of the last war, in his "When Johnny Comes Marching It was estimated that at the end of the Home," Niven Busch now has written "They Dream of Home"—the story of five war 200,000 women will have undergone Johnnies marching home from foxholes and beachheads into the grim realities of from six to 12 months technical training civilian life. . . . Book-of-the-Month Club selection for November was D. W, at college levels. These women, the survey Brogan's "The American Character." Brogan, a British professor, tries to explain points out, are unlikely to cast aside their America and the Americans to Britain. Typical statement: "The U S was training and go back home. made by matter-of-fact men with a clear head for bookkeeping." Another probability is that veterans Comes the Revolution, and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony will play attending college will leave jobs open to "encores." Well, The Day has come, it seems. For the opening concert of the women, it was noted. orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, Arthur Rodzinski conducted a heavy [For another idea on this subject, see diet of Bach and Beethoven and wound up with an encore—George Gershwin's "Caveman's" letter on page 3.—Ed.1 "1 Got Rhythm." . • . * * * Eyes South on Brazil The wax rush is on, fellers. Now that music-boss James C. Petrillo's 27-month SAO PAULO, Brazil.—Brazil is getting ban on record-making is over, Victor and Columbia are back in business again. set for a big hotel-building boom to be Victor will have the Boston Symphony under Serge Kousscvitzky and the NBC Sym- accompanied by a systematic promotion phony under Toscanini, and also Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Tommy of the country's tourist attractions. This Dorsey, Freddy Martin. Columbia's war aim No. 1 is to get out The Voice, Frank also means a sharp increase for Ameri- Sinatra, for the enchantment of bobby-soxers and hep cats. Other Columbia stars: can business in imports of fittings, fur- Harry James, Benny Goodman, Kate Smith—and the New York Philharrnony. nishings and other building materials, Decca offers some new Bing Crosby. and such odd items as the Los Angeles Phil- Look At aitarine which Brazil does not manufacture in harmony playing "Holiday for Strings" and "Oklahoma," and Jascha Heifetz VETERANS TODAY already are being re-employed by many plants throughout volume. giving out with "White Christmas." America. In general, the job outlook is rosy for the post-war period. ii TOMORROW Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944

News Shorts Mail Via Rockets HE fellows Off the Wire who fool Science Taround with WASHINGTON (AP)—Half a billion glass tubing, mathe- dollars worth of new plant construction matical laws and is planned to boost production of shells high-priced micro- for infantry mortars, it was disclosed by scopes arc doing War Production Board Chairman J. A. things with science Krug. He observed at the same time that nowadays t h t the armament task of the Home Front make Buck Rogers look like past tense. may retard reconversion for some time. after the German collapse. So if son cone The drive to get production programs happens to tell you that car wheelc are of other war implements up to the pace made from salt water and that the morn- needed for all-out war on two major ing mail out of Omaha came via rocket fronts is showing "excellent progress," express, don't blink and gape. That— the WPB chairman told a news confer- to a letter—is what's cooking. ence, pointing out that new workers are Down in Freeport, Tex., a Dr. Dutch entering war plants in "encouraging Beutel operates a plant where they swish numbers." plain old sea water around with cooked Efforts to recruit lab6r and step up oyster shells. When the swishing around production of vital weapons and supplies is finished, pure magnesium metal come; are beginning to pay off, and "the whole out the other end of the pipes. spirit seems much better," Krug added. Magnesium, the lightest structural "Encouraging reports have come in metal known to man—and a good 50 per from Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and cent lighter than aluminum—should Philadelphia, where machine tools, play a big role in a post-war manufac- foundry products, heavy tires and othet turing and building program. Because urgently needed materials are made," he of its strength it will probably be used said. to make car wheels, as other automobile parts. WASHINGTON — Most curbs on Science aims to do something about food sales in the States will end with converting sea water into purposes more Germany's defeat in Europe, according useful than providing swimming space. to Lee Marshall, director of distribu- tion of the War Food Distribution Rocket Mail agency. He warned, however, that government war-food buying will con- In the rocket world astounding de- tinue heavy. To meet the government's velopments are foreseen. Dr. F. K. needs food production goals for 1945 Teichmann, chairman of the Aeronau- will be about the same as in 1944. International Nens rhoto tical Engineering Dept. of New York Lucky George is what his wife calls him. He's George Kowalchuck and was the first World War II veteran in the Chicago University, predicts that mail will be of:- area—and the second in the U.S.—to receive a GI home loan. Here he is with his wife and baby, choosing a bungalow, livered by rockets, and that ;t will take NEW YORK—It takes ra3 Atlas to thanks to the GI Bill of Rights. only three minutes for the robots to balance the new-type aluminum gasoline travel from Chicago to New York—a drum developed for the Air Transport distance of 711 air miles. Command's China-Burma-India run. Tipping the scales at 21 pounds, the light- Just where these rocket mail couriers Travel of Tomorrow: Water and Rail will land seems to pose the biggest head- ache at present, but Dr. Teichmann Assault Craft Catch claims that this difficulty will be over- Tomorrow Is Still New Traffic Control come by means of expertly-designed Eyes of Sailors, Device Helps Speed launching platforms, automatic pilots A Long Way Oft and radio beam controls. GIs Alike The Trains Dr. Tcichmann also claims that the A week ago today the first issue of rocket bomb will prove useless as a IG league this new supplement, rommutow, AMERICAN weapon of war in future years, because guessers predict appeared in The Stars and Stripes. railroads are of the defense measures which can be ,B thousands of Something was said in an editorial carrying more worked out to stop it. doughfeet and gobs that will hold good until the last shot goods and people will take to water is fired on all the fronts where our this year than ever And Penicillin . . . like ducks after the side is fighting: "Tomorrow is a long before, and are Two suggestions recently came out of war. These top way off. When it will come, no man doing it in face of the science world for giving penicillin a flight business ex- knows." shortages in men longer life once it enters the body. If an perts figure a lot of Now the front lines are blazing a n d equipment. GIs will become more than ever_ That's the war today ice bag is placed on the spot of injection They got a big lift circulation is slowed down and penicillin Popeyes ; that many —grim and furious and tough. But in setting records for coxswains will skip- tomorrow is what we're fighting for doesn't fade quite so fast. The other idea freight and traffic is to take a dose of bicarbonate of soda, per their own pleasure craft and —that day when we can return to the from a gadget that would make Casey which gives swallowed penicillin an hour weight drum is 30 pounds lighter than a good time doing it. job of being Joe Citizen. have Jones' eyes blink, and which may erase or two more life. the conventional type. It will make So sure is the National Association of Meanwhile, TOMORROW will cover some of the more painful aspects of rail- It was revealed also that on the battle- possible the carrying of hundreds of Engine and Boat Manufacturers that your Home Front—as it is today, as roading for the train rider of the future. fields today Allied guns are tired from Thousands of additional gallons by the servicemen developed a taste for life on it carries on its share of the present If you've sat for hours on a railroad nitrogen which has been extracted from Army Air Forces. the waves that it sights a $20,000,000 fight and as it prepares for tomorrow. siding, wailing for a fast freight to boll the air, and that camphor—hitherto a boat market in 1946. This, says the U.S. through a single-track line, you'll appre- product from Jap-controlled Formosa—is Chamber of Commerce, is triple the WASHINGTON .—Brig. Gen. Frank T. ciate the potentialities of this new device. being manufactured from southern pine Hines, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, gross business in 1940. If it is widely adopted you may no longer trees. told the Council of American Veterans The anticipated boat boom is based on Urges Planning have to cool your heels while the morning As for plastics—always a labora- Organizations that organizers should these reasons: express waits for a slow freight to switch tory subject—they have made a strong make sure the job they want to do for (a) The boat ownership hug bit thou- off the main line. debut by appearing in the 1942 automo- the veteran is not already being done. sands of Navy men. The same yen in- The new device is called Centralized bile—which contains 230 different plastic "Duplicating and overlapping would Today for Jobs fected soldiers who handled or rode into Traffic Control. parts. be serious when large scale demobiliza- battle in LST boats, alligators, ducks or CTC, as railroad men call it, allows tion conies," he said, adding that the seeps (amphibious jeeps). nation's goal should be full employment, In Peace Years the locomotive engineer and the conductor Cooped up buying power and instead of simply work for veterans, lest (b) to operate trains without written orders. Trees vs. Dust desires is evident among civilians. NEW YORK.—A high level of post- the veterans become a "special class." war employment will depend on prompt It's all done by electrical impulses, by Drydocked or tied up boats have TO anyone to (c) planning by both management and labor signals from a control station that auto- rotted and rusted beyond repair. These %% horn the ter m now to meet four major problems which matically change passing-track switches foresti• 'Dust Bo l' sug- MEXICO CITY—Mexico is now at owners will want new boats—but quick. and signals along the way. It sounds work will result after the war from a nation- gests a post-season on a ten-yeac program to bring (d) Flood control projects, artificial like magic, but under this system two electricity lines to every Mexican wide job shift of an estimated 22 million football game, let it town lakes, better river navigation conditions trains going in opposite directions on a / of more than 1,500 inhabitants. The men and women, a study released by the be recalled that this at home created new waters for land- single-track line can pass each other with- project is expected to cost $60,000,000. Committee for Economic Development a,e , name but a few lubbers to skipper their clippers. revealed. out slowing down. In fact this kind of At present half of Mexico's 22 million , years ago described people are beyond the reach of electri- GI interest is focussed on seaworthy The survey, prepared by Charles A. thing is old stuff on single-track rail lines r a vast area of the city lines. assault boats. These light plywood ::raft, Myers, assistant professor of industrial today. And fast trains are passing slower United States. that • relations at Massachusett's Institute of ones without the slow trains coming to a was when the wind DETRO1T—Reconversion of the auto- Technology, cited these four problems halt. was picking up mobile industry to the manufacture of for which policies must immediately be The old system was fine when trains millions of tons of powdery black soil civilian cars will-be launched the day formulated: Re-hiring of servicemen, arrived on schedule and extra trains were from the flat, sun-parched farms of the Germany surrenders, according ,o Vs.'1,11 plant personnel transfers, unavoidable seldom sent out. Trains not on the time Great Plains and ominous black clouds officials and industry executives. The layoffs and employment of new personnel. table were able to stop at places well made it dark in cities far away. Myers, basing his conclusions on the number of persons employed in civilian ahead of where they were supposed to A lot of sad, bewildered people tied experience of 32 manufacturing and non- car manufacture will not reach the number pass, or wait on a siding, and collect from handkerchiefs over their mouths and manufacturing firms in their planning for employed before the war until pproxi- the train dispatcher the written orders they watched helplessly as the rich top dirt post-war personnel policies, emphasized mately 12 months after victory, it is 'needed to proceed. of their homelands swirled away day after believed. the need for agreement between manage- day until little gullies and ridges of yellow ment on a clearcut seniority policy. Anyone who has ridden trains in the States recently—lucky guy—knows how and rock showed through. They then went away, too. NEW YORK.—The sky jalopy of Draft Act Unclear snafued railway train schedules have be- tomorrow may be a commercial version But long before the nation as a whole The Selective Service Act, be pointed come. The train dispatcher became one of the jet-propelled plane, according to out, is not specific on the point of the of the world's most overworked men. recognized the seriousness of the Dust Mechanix Illustrated Magazine. To- Bowl, the government was hard at work roughly 13 feet long with 5-foot beams, accumulation of seniority by employes CTC is a train dispatcher's dream. At day's military models have set the pat- on the problem. Agricultural men knew weigh just 165 pounds. Light enough to during absence in the armed forces. strategic points along a rail line an opera- that the trouble all started back during paddle or power with outboard mctor, "One firm," the report. said, "which tor sits at an electrically-illuminated the first World War when high prices for these shallow draft boats can be carried considers other factors besides seniority, diagram desk which shows the movement wheat led to the ploughing up of too on a car top or towed on a trailer to and of trains along the line. By the movement is planning to list absent servicemen and many miles of firmly-anchored grassland. from the water. And, they will be pst servicewomen in their proper places on of knobs and levers he controls wayside the thing for fishing, duck huntirm As long as the rainfall was adequate, the occupational seniority lists, so that signals and switches at the passing tracks. strong winds of the region could do little paddling around to build biceps, or for present employes will know just how their With an eye on the panel showing the pitching woo to the heart throb on a damage. At last, however, the dry years length of service compares with that of position of the trains, he throws these came, and the plains' winds picked the moon-drenched lake. those to whom the company has re- switches and at the same time sets the whitered earth clean. The U.S. Maritime Commission his employment obligations." signal to tell the locomotive engineer what Congress appropriated more than half already offered 2,936 of these obsoleze, Myers said strict seniority would not be to do—strop, proceed, enter a siding, or but unused assault boats at $75 cach. an adequate basis for transfers, layoffs a billion dollars for drought relief, and leave a siding and move to the next con- there was talk in the newspapers of plant- Some 1,800 used ones were made avail- or downgrading. He listed family status. trol point—and where to do it. able to boat dealers willing to buy thew residence and ability or performance ing a 1,150-mile strip of forest 100 miles as The whole business is handled on wide that would serve to break the fierce- tern for this advanced aircraft, which in bunches of 25 at a cost of £52.50 each. factors which would have to be given separate wires, without interfering with will accommodate four and baggage, Engine builders will market outboard, attention. ness of the plains' winds. Such a gigantic the regular automatic safety block signals. strip did not materialize, but something and travel at four times the speed of inboard and power boat engines that And if anything gets snafued with either today's family car. The plane is already deliver more horsepower per pound 'flan Male vs. Female better did. Today wind-breaking trees system, the lights go red to halt all traffic stretch for a total of 17,698 miles on on the drawing board. pre-war models. The small boat owner "Other questions to be decided between until the trouble can be located. 28,961 individual farms through the will be able to carry his outboard without management and labor in re-hiring Seven major mil lines have adopted Dakotas. Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma CHICAGO—A new short haul post- need to"•take a dozen easy lessons to veterans," Myers continued, "are whether CTC to help speed traffic at critical points and Texas. war cargo plane, the Saturn 75, has been jobs formerly held by men, and now re- become an Atlas or Samson. along the lines. announced by Lockheed Aircraft. De- engineered to be done by women, will be Some 220,000,000 trees have been signed to carry 14 passengers, a crew of restored to returning servicemen ; whether planted under the Prairie States forestry two and cargo, at a cruising speed of over Free Press War Cure present jobs will be studied to create new Veterans Service Center project. 200 miles an hour, the plane will be pro- EVANSTON, Ill., Dec. 27—Military openings for veterans; and whether vets NEW YORK.—There is no one In addition to keeping crops from being duced as soon as military requirements might and a universal free press will keep will be given a chance to use skills "veteran problem." But thousands of blown out of the ground or being permit. peace in the world after the war, accord- acquired while in service. veterans have problems—individual smothered by dust, the shelter belts effec- ing to the findings of a poll among 175 He advocated the following oracaces hurdles they must leap before going back tively curb soil erosion from the too NEW YORK—Army vets with ad- World War 11 veterans, now enrolled at be followed in employment of new per- into civilian life. At war's end there rapid drainage of water and conserve vertising and merchandising experience Northwestern University. sonnel: Utilization of all sources of will be millions more. ground moisture by checking evaporation. who are home are getting help in find- More than 80 per cent of the veterans labor, including public employment To discover what these problems will Thousands of farmers arc working their ing a job from Tide, the ad industry's believed that neace can be maintained agencies, veterans agencies and schools to be, and to demonstrate how any Ameri- lands in the erstwhile Dust Bowl today trade magazine. Tide conducts a free- only through the use of armed force, the find workers; hiring of employes be can community can mobilize to solve because the shelter belt trees have saved of-charge classified ad section for service survey showed, while an overwhelming centralized in a personnel department so them is the job of the new veterans' ser- the land. Instead of the seared and people, and sends forms for stating 95 per cent agreed that a free press in uniform practices will be followed ; keep- vice center here, where over 3.000 dis- barren miles of ten years ago, there is background and abilities from its office every nation would be a factor in avert- ing adequate records; orientation and charged men have been given assistance once again the fertile plain, producing at 232 Madison Ave., New York City. ing future wars. job training for new employes. in one month. much for the nation at a critical time. Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944 TOMORROW iii

By Igor Cassini CIS Tomorrow Staff Writer No Football He Include ale Out Believe it or not, but American forests A Sgt. Speaks for Married Guys— will be the sources of everything from To prevent the bonus issue from becom- Why all the bitching about the demo- tooth paste to ink in the post-war world. ing a political football I wish to offer A Pfc Has Plans for Schools—Four bilization plan. It's all right by me—and So said Yale University's Prof. Robert the following suggestion: I won't be going home for a long while. Aries, of NEW HAVEN, CONN., add- Upon receiving an honorable .lischarge Joes Blast Vets —A Pvt. Talks of No, I don't want a career in the Army. ing that the forests can also produce dyes, from the service the GI would have !cis I'm now 29 and would like to be home baking powder, medicines, paints, chew- life insurance policy converted by the trying to make a name for myself in my government into a "Bonus Annuity Bonuses—And a T/5 Has Tax Pains ing gum, perfumes, plastics, sugar and, oh, yes, rubber. . . . In JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., 175 local draft boards are already on the task of returning war veterans to their former jobs or of ob- taining new jobs for them. About 30,000 One Small Voice veterans have already returned to Mis- I've got some ideas about getting men back into civvy life after the war's over. souri through various types of military discharges. . . . I say let's ship combat-experienced men back to the States first, and give them a chance to see their homes and families, etc., by means of furloughs and passes. GI Joe will wear "pasteurized" shirts But so far as actual discharges go, l think married men with or without children and shorts when he returns home. In should get discharged first. fact the entire family "wash" from leather pillows to feminine fripperies will IAT be pasteurized, said the nation's laundry Policy." This would enable the GI to \1\ : • industry leaders in CHICAGO, an- receive 50 per cent of the face value of nouncing their plan to. make "the his policy, payable to him by the govern- cleanest people in the world" even ment in five yearly instalments. The Met cleaner. . . . A billion dollars will be soldier would continue to pay the same spent in irrigating ARIZONA when the low monthly premium rate until death. war ends. . . . A FLATBUSH real At the time of his death the full amount of estate operator was hauled into court the policy would be paid to his henc- Why? Because they are the guys who will start buying homes, ice boxes, for running a human sardine act in rent- ticiary minus the amount received doling ing nine four-room cottages to 100 ser- furniture, etc., right off the bat—thereby helping to move the wheels of industry the five years. vicemen. . . . Attention, all married and helping to hire more men as they come out of the Army. Supervision of this policy should be men. The little women won't have to Very frankly, most of us single guys aren't going to give a hoot about a job. take the cord off the post-war flatiron government-controlled and worked out to to hurl it a you. WPB has given the make the insurance rate attractive enough We'll probably take a vacation first, and we can do that just as well on furlough. go-ahead signal to Eureka Vacuum to encourage the ex-serviceman to con- No plan on earth will satisfy everybody, but I think the above will satisfy us as a Cleaner Co., of DETROIT, for produc- tinue his payments even after he nas de- nation.—Sgt. Hiram E. Forbes, Engr. tion of cordless electric irons.... ceived the 50 per cent from his policy.— Pr!. Ira Brady. ltd. Div. (For another soldier's ideas on demobilization, see. T/3 C. D. F.'s "Include Former dens of social lions are being Me Out" letter elsewhere on this page.—Ed.) profession. Yes, I made more money in transformed into buildings of tomorrow. Army Schools civilian life than as a GI (even with the In PHILADELPHIA, Whitemarsh, the 20 per cent overseas pay). No. I'm not. palatial 150-room mansion, which cost Tens of thousands of unneeded troops exactly a rookie after 213 months. will be stranded in Europe and Africa the late Edward T. Stotesbury $5,000,000 GI Questionnaire But every one can't go home first. It to build and $7,000,000 to furnish, is after V-Day. .To keep them occupied, Who'll Pay for It? Ever since I have been in the ETO I seems fair to me that men who've been now a center of scientific research . . . the Army is rapidly completing plans for A suggestion to the people back homc, the longest in the front lines. with who are trying to help the GIs. A law have been a constant reader of The Stars and in WASHINGTON the Edward B. an elective educational program or a children to support, and who have more choice of supervised recreation for the fixing the income-tax rate for all sect ice McLean property, once the meeting- and Stripes. During this time I have months of service than I have should be serious-minded GIs. Many of the men and women at the 1939 level (except place of the Capital elite and recently less . found hundreds of interesting a7ticles released before me. changed to a parking lot, will be meta- details will depend on where U.S. forces during any year when the tax rate houJd submitted by GI Joe. Recently the GI morphosed into a two-thousand seat end up, what duties they will still have go below that figure) is necessary. It The WD demobilization plan was based huddle has given me an idea. Since so on interviews with EM to see what they motion-picture theater at a cost of two to perform. But the program is much has been said about what to do with million smackers. . . . sufficiently set to indicate that it will be thought would be the best system. I'm Germany, occupation, demobilization, just one of the 90 per cent in the Army much vaster in size and scope than any 0004L. post-war security, bonus, education, sur- The "Kalcium Kids" of CHAM- ever established by a post-armistice army. VEZT who thinks the scheme is O.K. Under plus material and a peace-time army, why the provisions of the plan I'll be around PAIGN and URBANA, Ill., are back Included arc four types of schools: ' not issue a questionnaire of these impor- on regular diets, after having loaned a long time until Germany and Japan 1—Bask unit schools, attached to bat- tant items and let the GI vote on them. are licked and occupied. But I can't their appetites to the University of talions, will range from sixth grade He's the one who knows what he wants. Illinois for studies to determine calcium think of a fair system of choosing men requirements for boys of high school through second year college. The curri- After the first war it required a fis:arb- to be released from service soon that culum will include courses in mechanical age Maybe it's because he ate so ance on the part of the returned vets to would include me.—T/3 C. D. F. many crunchies, but the GE in this war crafts, agriculture, business administra- receive their benefits. I'm sure that the is two-thirds of an inch taller than the tion. etc. country is intelligent enough now .o give doughboy of World War I, according to a—Centralized on the job technical the serviceman what he needs. ;;ince we Vet to Vet schools will help GIs for future posi- are recognized as being a big brother to a survey by Met. Life Ins. Co. of NEW We heard that a post commander of the YORK. . . . tions. the other countries, let's think first and be big brothers to ourselves.—Pri. American Legion thinks it would be tine 3—University study centers where would be the height of injustice to expect I. JendrzejewskL if we would throw our chips in with them LIMA, 0., believes it has "cornered liberal arts and pre-professional courses those who fought this war to have to the market" on twin births. The seventh are obtained. The University of Paris pay for it when they return. We do not after this war is over, as we would he too pair of twins in 24 days was born in the begrudge the prosperity enjoyed by the Post-war Economy inexperienced to organize an outfit of our Memorial Hospital the other day... . To people at hoMe durihg these years of own. Who is he trying to kid? Too many of us are prone to think of. give labor a regular radio voice, the war, but feel that we deserve a little help We've spent more time overseas than nation's major networks have decided to to establish ourselves.—T/5 Julian Fried- post-war schemes in terms of increased most of those guys did in the Army—not contribute free air time to the various man, Port. Bn. productivity, new industries, stabilized wishing to take any credit away from labor organizations after the first at the employment, &c., and it is a pleasant them. In the first place, how did they year. . . . A goose and not a duck, this picture. But, because of the position of get their start? Are we a bunch of kids time, has broken into the news. Citizens "Post-war Plans" The following is submitted as my con- the United States as the largest and who haven't gotten by the "wet pants of AVA, MO., are very proud that a new richest power in the world, if lasting record for goose longevity has been tribution to the many "Post-war Plans." peace and prosperity are our aims, our established in their town. The goose, the 1 have faith in it and believe it to be a workable plan. Here is the blue-print: economy must first make adjustment to last of a flock raised by Misses Margaret the post-war economy of the rest of the and Dora Smith, died at the age of 30. I—The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars to consolidate world. During this period of adjustment we will be challenged by such problems The MIAMI BEACH Rod and Reel in order to form a powerful union which Club is raising a fund to buy Tokyo Rose will be better fitted to cope with all as the disproportion between America's some new phonograph records. Tokyo problems concerning those who have share of the world's population or the Rose is the name GIs in the Pacific have served in this war. trade barriers which have rendered a given to a woman announcer on a Jap 2—The formation -of a Veterans' Con- large portion of the world's population "the white man's burden" when they propaganda broadcast. The propa- gress, consisting of. a House (elect and ganda is "funnier than Jack Benny," has turned over twenty-five buildings. pay one representative per Congressional could be civilized customers, or the effect the soldiers say, but the music is wel- Another will be in London. District), and a Senate (elect and pay two on world employment of that venerable comed and Tokyo Rose has only six 4—Civilian universities will take in Senators per State). institution, the protective tariff, now that worn-out records to play. . . • advanced students on army scholarships. 3—The congress would decide what most industry has emerged from infancy. 5—Except for the civilian universities, veterans desire in National Government if we can face these questions with Bernard Swanson, assistant chief of the all the schools will be Army-staffed with and operate exactly like our Federal Con- tough-minded realism and accept the JAMESTON, N.Y., fire department, officers and EM who have pre-war teach- gress in Washington. seeming short range sacrifices that their filled the following report card after fire- ing experience. Such an organization would require fast solution in the world peace seems to men had removed a cat from a tree: demand, if we have progressed far enough For home-sick GIs the action from National Congress, thereby "Time—I.30 AM. Place—Foote and . Army empha- from the hysteria which brought down stage that we shouldn't have just as much sized one point: the program wilt not assuring the veteran of necessary pro- Newland Avenues. Type of call—Cat in tective legislation in the post-war years. our immigration gates in 1920, if we are brain .as• they had 25 years ago?. tiee. Cause—Dog." . . . Justice of the delay any soldier from getting home. As ready to let American industry look to soon as their travel orders arrive the GIs Such a. congress would protect the We will form a very formidable bloc Peace, S. A. Bates of PUEBLO, Col., is people from isolationist movements in our its laurels instead of a tariff wall and if which could decide a hell of a lot of looking for a couple from VERMONT to can leave school.—PJc James C. Maveidis. National Government, thus aiding the we use our good offices to "influence" issues in the future of our country. Why marry—free of charge. Bates wants to move for a lasting peace. The trans- others Powers to take similar steps we should we have to listen to some old round up his record of weddings for portation from an impotent "third party" can look froward to a period of peace "fogies" when we're going to be the couples from all 48 states. . . . Every Tough Guy to a power-element in Federal Govern- and unprecedented world productivity. "birds" who'll be around 50 years after morning the switchboard girl of a This stuff about women at work after ment would be almost instantaneous. But "adjustment" of certain of our in- their organization, as it stands now, will PHOENIX, Ariz., firm has to chirp: All men and women in the services are ternational institutions must come first. the war gives me a pain. They'll do what have died out? There are ten million 01 "Good morning! This is the office of greatly concerned over the trend of We had better start thinking about the so of us. Surely there must be a helmet Gust, Rosengeld, Divelbess, Robinette we men say—and I'll say that my wife national policies in post-war years. Why day after tomorrow unless we are satis- full of brains there, some place.—Four and Coolidge." HOLLYWOOD, Cal., is coming home with me, and no argu- not give them—each and everyone—a part fied to have "peace for a day," for that's "Inexperienced" Joes, T/3 E. C. Petty, Greta Garbo is having her freckles re- ments. If we all take this viewpoint to play?—Per. Gordon D. Little. 44th what a premature tomorrow would be.— SISgt. L. 0. Porter, SISgt. W. M. John- moved. there'll be lots of jobs.--Cavernan." Arend. In)'. Bn. Pfc Julius Hertz. 1st Division. T 15 Samuel M. Weiss.

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avem-Arro/Y couases ABOUT "",AfeWC4477/RE AND HAIVOZ(/Ve- alere/AA/ (TEAR Ilf{rCEDE EACH VE75 DISCHARGE' IV UNIT NEWS Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944 Texas Goes South oftheBorder Awards and * UNIT NEWS * Texas, which the Union Joined in 1845, eyes of Texas upon him, the kid declared took one straight on the button the other evenly: Decorations day from a skeptical 7-year-old English "I don't believe a word of it. He can't be from Texas. He's an American boy when a group of GIs from the 65th soldier." DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS Fliers Learn 90mm Chimes Fighter Wing were tea-time guests in Regaining their composure, the Gis I/Lt. Vincent E. McKenna, and Pvt. Joseph J. his home, asked the boy where Texas was located. Giordano. both of New York. S/Sgt. George Staskus, of Cleveland, He gave them an incredulotis stare, but LEGION OF MERIT How It's Done introduced the lad to Sgt. Lewis Bass, with all the assurance of a 7-year-old, Brig. Gen. Francis FL Griswold, Eric, Pa. of Schulenberg, Tex., an ex-cowboy who replied: BRONZE STAR would be only too willing to expound on "Why, we all know Texas is in South LI. Col. William F. Kernan, Randolph Field, the glories of his state. But with the America." Tcx. ; Mat. Paul A. Burgeson, Warsaw, N.Y.; In PG Course Capis. John F. Castle, Santa Rosa, ; Alexander N, MacArtimr,Arlington, Mass.; James S. Seay, 55m MUSTANG GROUP, Dec. 27— Kenedy, Tex.; I/Lts, Harold G. Bound. Lake- "Clobber College," which offers post- —Air Force Doings wood, Ohio Ian M, Hamilton. Los Angeles ; graduate training to pilots who have come Pfc Father, Officer Son Francis J. Nolan, St. Louis. out of air-training schools in the U.S., M/Sgfs. Andrew M. Astolla, Linden, NJ.: Use 2 Forts Reunited for Christmas Marvin P. Malinger, New Vienna, Ohio Forrest has been set up here. L. Landrum. Now Bloomfield, Mo. ; John M. Col. George T. Crowell, group corn' EIGHTH AF SERVICE COM- Michael, Greensboro, N C. ; Neal B. Page, Pru- MAND STATION, Dec. 27—When den, Tenn, : Louts Smith, Philadelphia; Haul' mender from Chicago, is president of the On 1 Mission J, Walker, Lexington, Tenn. "board of regents." The -professors" Pfc Clarence F. Brown, of Dallas, Tex., It took two Fortresses to get 2/Lt. auto mechanic here, was called to a T/Sgts. Lawrence A. Cunningham, Ashland, Pa.: are veteran fighter pilots who teach the Arthur G. Allard Jr., pilot from Forest KOSCOO A. Downing, Gardiner, Me.; Charles E. telephone to hear a voice say: "Hold 'Janson, Mitchell, combat-students some of the tricks they Park, Ill., and his crew over a German S.D, : Roderick G. Luenberg. have learned in dogfights with the Luft- the line, please ; Lt. Derrell Brown will Milwaukee; Wilbert E. Salzwedcl, Forest Grove, war plant, but they got there and bombed speak to you," he was beside himself Ore, waffe. the target on schedule, S/Sgts. Dewey, D. Drury, Alma, Okla.; Louis Capt. William H. Lewis, of Pasadena, with joy. Lt. Brown, 19, of the Mer- A. Dworeck, Brooklyn ; Francis N. Lange, Logans- The Okmulgee Special developed port, Pa. ; Isadore Reichck, Houston. Cal, who is "Dean" of the profs, defined chant Marine, is Pfc Brown's son. engine trouble over France, but on the Sets. Doice Flowers. Medley, Tex.: John J. the word "clobber" as a verb which When the elder Brown closed his way back to England the airmen decided Gast, Baltimore ; Raymond A, KlerzIng. Tampa, means "to plaster with bullets, to damage garage in August, 1941, to join the Fla.; Milton W. Rudio. Helena, Mont. Cob. or destroy the enemy." He added: "Our to try again. S / Sgt. Edward H. Eastman, Army, his son went to sea. The father Harvey A. Buckley Jr., Texarkana, Ark. : William radio operator from Meadville, Pa., F. Gassem, Higginsville, Mo. ; Bernard N. task is to be sure that our students have came overseas a year ago while young Hashed the 487th Bomb Group. LieraskeY. Lemont, Ezra M. Harmon. Ash- all the latest data on how this is done." Brown's duty has been confined mainly land, Mo.; Hubert C. James, Cordele. Ga.: Meteorology, geography and navigation When they returned to bast, ground to the Pacific. Travia D. Lancaster, Orange, Tex. ; Fred P. Nes- crews, bomb-loaders and refuelers had bit Jr., Decatur, Ga.; Henry Sierakowski, Brecken- are classroom subjects, but the tavorite They spent Christmas together. ridge. Tex.: John B. Smith, Wichita Falls, Tex. • course, according to 1/ Lt. Oliver W. Gris- another Fort ready for Allard and crew Thomas E. Toomey, Bing,hampton, N.Y, ; Cedl wold, of Erie, Pa., "professor" of fighter to take over. Speeding back across the E. Watson. San Antonio. Continent, the bomber caught up other Pies LeRoy bushier, Arvin, Cal.: Luctous E, tactics, is "laboratory procedure".—send- Fields, planes of the 487th at the Belgian border San Antonio; George A. Heroslan, Wor- ing a combat-student up in a PSI. As cester, Mass. ,• George Kotsonis, Brooklyn : Glen the ,"professors" wise up their pupils in and continued in formation into Ger- GI's Invention fl. Langford, Alliance, Neb. ; George Mitchell, Bal- timor e. intricate formation-flying, gunnery and Pvt. William C. Bateham, of Long many. Psts. Jake T. Hutchinson, Cyntbiana. Kr.: dogfighting, the classroom formula is Beach, Cal., plays chimes he built out Other members of the crew were William E. White, Baltimore. being perfected. of used 90mm. shell cases for the chapel 2/ Lis. George J. Alexander, co-pilot Ends Shortage Other members of the faculty are: at an Air Service Command Depot. from Cambridge, 0., and Richard E. AIR MEDAL Heft, navigator from Malden, Mass.; 93RD BOMB GROUP, Dec. 27—For /Lts. Calvin C. Owens, Wichita Falls. Tex.; Capt. William H. Burns, Colfax, Wash. , Porter A. Stratton, Portal,. N. Mex. F /0 William A. Brown, bombardier 1/Lis. George E. Funk Jr., Sioux Fails, inventing a machine that makes safety 2/Lts, Earl M. Reiner. Long Beach, Cal.; S.D.: Frank L. Tisher, Birmingham, \la. ; from Cleveland ; S/Sgts. Forrest F. Free- clips for bombs at a time when a critical Richard Farrington, St. Louis : Neil M. Gobrecht, Martin Nussbaum, Boston, Mass. ; GIs, Russians man, top turret gunner from Norwalk, Finlay, Ohio ; John W. kiiguens. Casper. WY0- ; shortage of the vital devices threatened Richard E. Hayek. Charles L. Proctor, Denver, Colo., and Calif, ; Ray H. Berg, waist gunner from Mishawaka, Ind, ; Harry L. to hamper air operations, T/5 Angelo Payne, Greenvale, S.C. ; Michael Peltsh. Saginaw. Fred E. Pickens, Tionesta, Pa. Rockford, Ill., and Clyde L. Yaegle, ball Mich. : John Pcrella, lotlet, Ill.: James F. Wilder- Mark Holidays turret gunner from San Diego, Calif., Lauri, of Rome, N,Y., has been selected man, Barnesboro, Pa. and Sgt. Frank A. Thulstrup, tail gunner T/Sgts. William H. Cherry. Montgomery, Ala. "Man of the Month" by Ordnance S/Sgls. Ferdinand P. Corradinn, Cranston. R.I. : Turret Shot Away, By Sgt. S. Chavkin lrom Skokie, Ill. Sergeant," monthly magazine of the Ralph D. Edberg, Minneapolis; Thomas W. Hicks, Stars and Stripes Special Correspondent Army Ordnance School at Aberdeen, Rosebank, N.Y.: John F, Kukowsid. Yonkers, N.Y.; Russell K. Mason, Elizabeth, N.J.; Thomas Gunner Hangs From HQ, EASTERN C O M MAN D, Several months ago, T/Sgt. Frank K. Md. E. McCue, San Francisco. USSTAF, Russia—GIs here marked two Pruett, of Thomastown, Ala., serving The machine ended a serious bottle- Fernando C. Aurst. .Val 1 ey Falts R I. neck by producing a sufficient supply of Ronald c a p pi oli 0 B a via N y. ; sskiney C Fort's Underbelly Fourth of July anniversaries within five with the 448th Bomb Group, won a Debois, Rainer, Ore.; John N. Lltzie, Bridgeport, months. First, American Independence young pig in a weight-guessing contest the clips, pin-like gadgets which prevent Conn. ; Judge A. Perry, Troutman. N.C. 384TH BOMB GROUP, Dec. 27— on market day in a nearby town. He bombs from exploding after they have Day was observed when Soviet and GI PURPLE HEART Ball turret shot out from under him, laid out a shilling for his chance and been raked in the planes. S/ Sgt. Terry L. Jones, of Rigby. Idaho, vocalists and entertainers gave out in a t/Lls. Leonard J. Kraus, Hammond, Ind.; guessed right to the ounce-72 pounds. Using scrap material ranging from Harold P., Long, Larchmont, N.Y. clung precariously to the damaged under- lively program in honor of the occasion. Pruett built a pen and kept his prize T/Sgts. Arthur J. Berthiaume, Long Island. belly of a Fortress in sub-zero weather bicycle parts to automobile springs, Lauri N.Y. ; Francis T. Clark, Salem, N.Y.; John J. U.S. Air Force grease monkeys recipro- oinking contentedly on by-products of overcame constantly-arising handicaps O'Reilly. Highland Park, Mich.; Wallace A. as it flew over Germany on a recent mis- the messhall until it weighed several Osgood. Saugus. Mass. ; Lohn R. Myers, Joilet, sion. cated by marking the 27th anniversary and produced about 1,500 of the clips an of the Soviet Revolution, an event equiva- hundred pounds. Recently, he sold the Ill.; Alec Redecke. Stoughton, Wis. ; John The formation had just dropped its hour in comparison with only a fraction Shinto, Lcechburg, Pa. lent to our Fourth of July. porker for £10 13s., a fat profit on a S/Sgts. Hugh J. Belding, Crystal Springs, Miss. bombs on the marshalling yards near of that number which could be produced Dressed in Class A uniforms, they small investment. (cluster): Earl Bowers, Kings Mountain, N.C. : Cologne when a burst of flak hit Jones' by the laborious manual method. Emil P. Contk, Midland, Pa. ; Peter J. Gorman. trooped down by truck from the airdrome * * * Fort, blowing out the bottom of the During the shortage, the machine sup- Dumont, N.J.; Sam S. Kellum'. Newton. Ala. : and stood shoulder to shoulder with The 22-year old 446th Bomb Group Dale D. Nickols. Hamilton, Ind. ; Douglas C. turret. Jones grabbed the turret control plied not only his station but the entire Soviet troops in the city's central park, twins—John and Lupe Servin, of San Ryan, Detroit; Alexander Warram, Baltimore; handles jutting out above him. His right Second Bomb Division, and later was Wayne F. Watkins, Escondido, Cal. while speakers and officials reviewed the Pablo, Calif.—have completed 35 mis- leg found a footing in the jagged remains used by an air depot which made clips Sgts. James F Brennan. Pottsville, Pa.: Ermel highlights of the year's war activities. sions as gunners aboard the Liberator Ferguson, Portsmouth. Ohio ;.Gabriel B. Cresco, of the turret and he held on for dear Immediately before the ceremony began Lazy Lou. They stood side by side to for many other units. Lauri has also been Detroit Arthur F. Hill, Walla Walla, Wash. life. awarded the Bronze Star. (dusted; Glenmore H. Jones, Bellingham. Wash.: army men and women as well as civilian receive DFCs recently. Clinton D. Lindsey. Gala, Va. ; Earle E. Stiglc- He couldn't hang on long, though, be- groups broke ranks to cut a t aper or * * * man, Richmond, Ind. Cols. Allen Birchtield, cause his oxygen system was shot out. Shell Creek, Tenn. ; Morton P. Flower, Forest two while the bands struck up "The Big The interphone was buzzing, for every- Blasted from his position in the nose Hills, N.Y. ; Paul R. Kimball. Saco, Me. ; Albert Bad Wolf" and "La Cucaracha." Medic Prefers ETO Mister, Malden, Mass.; Glyde E. Rosser. Bremen. one on the ship knew his plight. Finally, of a Fortress, 1/Lt. James L. Decker Crimson-cheeked girls, school children, Jr., 390th Bomb Group navigator from Ga„* Paul W. Vinum, Rochester, NH- : Walter he was pulled back into the plane and, To Pacific Theatre E. Walton, Iola, Kan. collective-farm groups and factory dele- Detroit, crawled back with his right Pies Babe C. Anderson, Platte, S.D.; Clyde temporarily blinded by broken plexiglas. 317TH STATION HOSPITAL, Dec. 27 led to the radio room. gations carried flowers and banners. arm torn by shrapnel to navigate the Baker, Union Mills. N.C. ; William L. Baldwin. When the celebration concluded the GIs bomber back to base. Applying a —Cpl. Bruno Tattini, of Farmington, Ill., Seneca. S.C.; William Blackshear, Macon, Ga.; Both legs were bruised, Brock, Cincinnati ; Robert L. Brother- his face cut returned to the airdrome. In the evening tourniquet and bandage himself, Decker Sidney 1. slightly, and he was blue from exposure who served eight months in the Pacific ton, Given, W Va.• Francis Chambers, Miley, many retired to the Russian restaurant, stayed at his post to plot the course all Va. : Edward Clark, 'New Albany. Miss. ; Philip to the 40-below weather. Crew mates before joining this hospital's medical de- where they sank their teeth into "antri- the way. W, Cloney, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Malcolm Couch. put boric acid in his eyes and covered tachment, will take the ETO any day. Confluence, Ky.; William D. Cook, London, Ky. cot." a Russian-type steak, washing it * * * them with cotton to prevent the fine glass Willis D. Creech, Coffee Springs, Ala. •, Stephen Food, recreation and working facilities lames S. Deese. from injuring the tissues. down with champagne. The Fortress Take It Easy, piloted by R. Drava. Morris Hill. N.C. The Russian management went Even here are far above what the Pacific has Albemarle. N.C. ; Charles F. dennis. East Jordan. Jones has since returned to duty. 1 /Lts. Donald H. Sparkman. of Ander- Mich. ; Leroy F. Eldridge, Cutler, III.; Warren further when it handed out enormous son, Ind., and Charles H. Bonner, co- to offer, he says. L Harrison. Alexandria. Va.; Maurice W. Horn. layer-cakes, strongly reminiscent of home- pilot from Chicago, didn't take it easy on In New Caledonia and on other Pacific Octane°. N.J. ; Hartwell H. House. Arcadia. S.C. ; Be It Ever So Crumbled islands where Tattini served with hospital William L. Jeffries, Oberlin. Kan.: Clarence E. baked stuff, to every table. a recent mission over Germany, returning King. Richmond, Va.: Leonard E. Larson. 486TH BOMB GROUP, Dec. 27— to base riddled with flak holes, control units, medics had to be jacks of all trades, LaFarge. Wis. : Hugh Macaulay Jr.. Seneca, T/Sgt. Bonner D. Wimberly Jr., engineer cables shattered and three wounded men building their own hospitals, piping in S.C.; Harry E. McClintock, New Castle. Pa.; and top turret gunner on a Fortress. gave Classes for Lens Students water, working from the ground up in Edwin N. Manila. Atlantik Mine, Mich, ; Carl aboard, A. Reed, Olean, N.Y.; George W. soles. Roan- his home town the works recently when he AN EIGHTH AF SERVICE COM- "We were just coming off the target in care and treatment of the wounded. Tents oke. Ala.: Alfred Tedesco. Bogota, N.J. took part in a bombing attack on the MAND STATION, Dec. 27—Amateur the Merseburg area." Sparkman recalled. for wards and living quarters are the Pats. Francisco A. Aragon. Luna, N. Mett.: marshalling yards at Coblenz, Germany. only issued equipment. Roy E. Arthur, Warrcnville, S.C. ; Charles H. photographers get a break at this strat,:gic "Up ahead of us a German jet-propelled Border, Milton, Pa. ; Oscar A. Brazzell, Charles- Wimberly, whose father was a first air depot commanded by Col. H. A. job was putting on a great acrobatic show ton. Harry E, Burroughs, Tarkio, Mo.: sergeant in the Army of Occupation after Moody, of Santa Cruz, Cal. Each month for the formation, obviously to divert our Charles N. Cart, Vincennes. Ind. •. Leonard H. 2 ATC Men Commended Crabtree. Frankfurt. Ind.; Brian L. Cullen, Staten World War I, was born in 1921 in a ten GIs are given the chance to take a attention. Suddenly. Jerry fighters started Island. N.Y.: James H. Dunlap. Columbus. Ohio ; medieval castle at the juncture of the full course in photography and darkroom coming in on our tail. On the first pass A WEST COAST PORT, Dec. 27— Francis E. Engel', Pomfret Center. Conn.; Richard Moselle and Rhine. Now out of Phoenix, technique taught by members of die base my tail, waist and ball turret gunners Two Transportation Corps sergeants here Fassino. Joliet, 111. ; Charles A. Ferraro. Phila- delphia Floyd E. Fulls, Texarkana. Tex. : Ariz.. he came to the U.S. with his photo lab staff. The men attend the were hit. ' have been given Certificates of Merit. Randolph Gallaghan, Covington, Va. ; Donald parents in 1922. classes at night in their off-duty hours. * * * The award was made to 1/Sgt. John B. V. limps, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Leroy A. Huff- man, St. Joseph, Mo. ; Robert E. Jones. Chicago ; Cpl. Robert S. Williams, Woodward, of Bryson City, N.C., for BRIEFINGS: leadership and administrative ability, Ernest B. Lee. Hartford, Ala.; Dale W. Lewis, — Ward Notes musician from Cleveland, and Pfc Provo, Utah; Richard B. McGregor, Kelly while S/Sgt. Roland 0. Corners. N.Y. ; Martin Nelson, Castle Rock, Herbert Leventhal, former song plugger Schaeffer, of Lemay, Mo., was commended for out- Colo. ; Roger L. NICClej, Battle Crack. Mich.; from New York, both serving with the Stanley L. Peters, Duncannon. Pa.; Milton A. Bible Saves Soldier's Life 100th Bomb Group, put Rainbow Corner standing services as an assistant chief Redln. Aliquippa. Pa.: Vernon E. S:mmons, I clerk. Westwood, Cal.: William Ternowski, New York. Out of the long list of wounded veter- pate in the Holland airborne operations. into words and music, entitled: "Drop ans recovering at hospitals in the U.K. Wounded again, his first stop after an aid In at the Rainbow Corner." Already comes an endless line of steles of death station was a Dutch maternity hospital, published, royalties from the song go to or grievous injury fended off by a staffed by U.S. medics. He's now at the Red Cross Army Hospital Fund. . . . soldier's equipment or by some personal 7th General Hospital. 352nd Mustang Group has destroyed 569 possession. * * enemy aircraft in the air and on the Pfc Lercy B. Cutsail, of Frederick, Band members at 121st General dos- ground for the loss of 98—nearly a six- Md., now at 129th General Hospital, was pital are not bashful in giving out with to-one ratio. . . I /Lt. Frederick C. hit in the arm by a shell fragment during praise for their bass fiddle player, Pit. McCall, of Gulfport, Miss., scored a the battle for Aachen, but another frag- Antonio Munivez, of Brownsville, Tex. double-kill over Berlin recently—his first ment lodged in the New Testament he Munivez was ready to commit penman- air victories over the Luftwaffe—while was carrying in his left shirt pocket, just ship on a Harry James contract when 2/Lt. Dale E. Karger, of McKees Rocks, over his heart. Uncle Sam snapped him up. Pa., registered his initial triumph, Pfc Adelbert Shotwell, of Charlotte. bagging an FW 190. . .. The 306th Bomb ET CETERA: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Group Fortress Satan's Lady, operational Mich., had his dog tags hanging down his Fontanne, presenting a Pearl Harbor Day since October, 1943, has finished 78 back when a piece of shrapnel hit him, piercing one of the discs and lodging in performance of their latest play, "Love missions without an abort. M /Sgt. Harry in Idleness," at 115th General Hospital, Trapowitz, of Philadelphia. is crew chief, his back. His ward surgeon at 79th paid tribute to five Japanese-Americans, General Hospital said the tag slowed the assisted by Sgt. James Towns, of Livings- casualties from the Italian and German ton, Tex.: Pfcs Shirley Dobbs, of Oneida, shrapnel enough to give him only a slight fronts, who were introduced between acts. wound. Tenn., and Dale W. Baker, of Long "They deserve our thanks and praise," Bottom, 0. Pfc Glenn Frost, of Allison, Pa., shared Mr. Lunt said.... Laboratory supervisor Shotwell's fortune when shrapnel which at 119th General Hospital, S /Sgt. Elias hit him in the back had to penetrate his Cohen, of Baltimore, still keeps up Hospital Operates Radio Station entrenching shovel, saving him from' research in his chosen profession, zoology. 135th GENERAL HOSPITAL, Dec. serious injury,' Frost is recovering at He recently lectured on the subject before 27—A local "radio station" through 187th General Hospital. the Natural History Society of a nearby which programs are piped to all wards * * town Sgt. Ralph E. Fritz and Cpl. and buildings at this hospital was opened Pvt. John E. Baurhenn. of Pittsburgh, Richard E Fritz, identical twins, are recently. Known as station "REDX," who has 13 letters in his name, made his administrative clerks at 55th General it is located in the Red Cross lounge. Its 13th jump from plane No. 13 without Hospital. . . . Col. Charles C. Gill. of inaugural program featured Miss mishap in the airborne invasion of Hol- Balboa, Cal., recently named commanding Marguerite Pohek, Red Cross director land. But in the fighting later on a officer of a general hospital in Englana, from New York, Chaplain Prince E. shell fragment put him out of action, has first hand knowledge of emergency Turner, Conway, Ark., l/Lt. William P. causing his evacuation to 307th Station care for battle casualties. He was a post Jones, Edenton, N.C.. and Pvt. Harry J. Hospital. surgeon in Hawaii on Dec. 7 1941. . . . Schneider, Santa Monica, Cal. * * The war brought back Cpl. James F. The station daily broadcasts a variety Wounded after ten days of fighting in Bowman, of Philadelphia, to serve near of programs, including music, news. the Normandy invasion, S/Sgt. Otis L. the land of his birth. Born in Glasgow, sports, and discussion forums. The pio• Sampson, paratrooper from North West- Scotland, he is now a wardmaster in 119th gram director and announcer is Cpl. port, Mass., came right back to partici- General Hospital, England, George J. Jaffe, of Elizabeth, N.J. Stales Armed Forces-28-12-44. Printed in England by The Times Publishing Company, Limited, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4, and Published by the United Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944 SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Once Over Greed, Laziness Killed Wartime Racing in States NEW YORK, Dec. 27--Gren.1. laziness gone by the suckers who visited Florida The higher the chumps bet, the more the governmental action which will close race Lightly and two newspaper stories killed last winter and couldn't get transportation greedy owners seemed to enjoy things. A tracks throughout the United States By Andy Rooney America's racing—that's the diagnosis of north. few expressed fears that a betting boom Jan. 3, it was announced today. sports columnist Tom O'Reilly of the New "That shame train carrying people might have a bad reaction, but they were Sen. Claude Pepper, Gov. Spessard NEW YORK, Dec. 27—Do you detect York newspaper PM. forced to sleep in their minks was as too lazy to do anything about it. sound a blow to racing as the sport ever Holland and Gov.-elect Millard Caldwell an odor? Do you smell something Here are the four points he listed today : "You see, much of this entire situation had considered an appeal to federal funny? Whether you detect it or not, 1—Greedy people who climbed aboard received. Under no circumstances could could be forgiven if the sale of E-bonds authorities allow another such story to government authorities for permission to something is beginning to smell, and it Florida-bound trains flaunting black hadn't flopped. As Herbert Bayard continue horse racing in the state but is the big time gambling racket which is market tickets to a snob's playground in occur this winter, when it is expected the Swope points out, racing still survives in the middle of war. most terrible casualty lists of the war will abandoned the plan after Senator Pepper moving in on amateur and, in particular, England, France and Russia, but'se fails talked by telephone with Washington college sports. 2—Lazy people who, because of the be due." to add that the people in those countries terrible war emergency were earning more 4—Tho second newspaper story was attend to their war obligations first and officials. A few weeks ago University of Kan- just smart reporting. The racing associa- sas basketball coach Dr. Forrest C. money than ever they were worth, the races second. Over here we have put absented themselves from jobs for tions had been cozily giving out their the horse before the ammunition cart." Santa Anita Cancels 55-Day Meeting "Phog" Allen popped off again. Good betting figures separately. Orlo Robert- Doctor Allen is always popping off about pleasant days at the races while the boys ARCADIA, Cal., Dec. 27—Santa Anita abroad were dying for the safety of their son, enterprising sports editor of the race track officials today cancelled their ''''' '''' •-• - this time of the homes. Associated Press, just added up the figures. Florida Officials Drop 55-day meeting scheduled to begin year, but never- 3—News stories about automobiles His total was $1.126,308,456. Announce- Dec. 30. With 1,350 horses stabled here theless he had parked at the tracks didn't help much, ment of that little sum knocked Washing- Plan to Protest Ban for the meeting, which was to have something to say. but the first really bad psychological rap ton's bigwigs right off their feet. TALLAHASSE, Fla., Dec. 27— 5480,000 in handicaps and derbies, offi- Simply, Phog told received by racing was that tale of O'Reilly said the tracks were "just as Florida state officials have decided to cials termed their action "the only thing everyone w h o Inhuman suffering and privation under- guilty of greed and laziness as the public. withdraw their contemplated protest over to do." wanted to hear it and some who didn't that gam- blers have become a Colorful Program Is Planned DeWitt, .Sewell, Marion Hal Newhouser, threat to college athletics. Speci- Win Diamond Accolades fically Allen pointed For Sunday's Tea Bowl Contest ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27—William Trout Pace out the case of DeWitt, general manager of the St. Utah University By John Wentworth Louis Browns. was named by Sporting PHOG ALLEN Coach Vadat Stars and Stripes Staff Writer News as baseball's number one execu- AL Hillmen Peterson, who answered the door in his The Eighth Air Force Shuttle-Raders tive of 1944. Luke Sewell, who piloted hotel room in New York before a game and the Air Service Command Warriors, the Browns to their first league pennant, CHICAGO, Dec. 27—Official American in the Garden and was confronted with opponents in White City Stadium's Tea was picked as top manager, Card short- League pitching statistics released yester- a man who asked the question: "How Bowl game Sunday for the championship stop Martin "Slats" Marion best player day show that Hal Newhouser and much will it cost me to have you see to of the U.K. base, arc wondering out loud and Aloysius "Wish" Egan, of the Dire,/ Trout, Detroit's left- and right- it that your boys lose to Dartmouth in whether they will be able to command the Tigers, number one scout. handed one-two punch, walked off with the finals of the NCAA basketball complete attention of the huge crowd Top men in the minor leagues were about everything in the league. What one tournament?" Peterson slammed the expected. William G. Mulligan, business manager man didn't bag his henchman did, with door. Not that they have any doubts about of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific the result that no two pitchers in 40 wars Allen offered further information their ability as football players. Most of Coast League ; Al Thomas, manager of have dominated the American League so witbout laying himself open to a libel the men, if cornered, will admit that "our the Baltimore Orioles of the niter- completely_ case about two college players who sold club will stand up against any of 'em." national League, and Jimmy "Rip" Newhouser, with 29 and nine, and their own team to professional gamblers What has them worried is the "color" Collins, first baseman and manager of Trout with 27 and 14, won 56 games for a price. And lastly, Allen suggested that officials have arranged to supplant the Albany Senators of the Eastern between them, the best performance since that there is a scandal in the making League. Jack Chesbro won 41 and Jack Powell which will make the Black Sox mess the battle. won 23 for New York in 1904. look like a penny pick-pocket affair. Another band—the Scotch-Irish Guards They were the league's only 20-game —accepted an invite to appear for the big winners and only one pitching crown MOSTLY what Phog Allen was talking event yesterday, bringing the total to five, about was Madison Square Garden. evaded them all year. That was Tex and in addition to the music there'll be Hughson's average of .783 on an 18 and where the biggest basketball business in 500 WACs on parade, Indian war dances, Kentucky Five America is being carried on every winter release by the Eighth Air Force "Varga by Ned Irish. The facts are that hun- Girl" of 1,000 homing pigeons, and an dreds of thousands of dollars are ex- exhibition of horsemanship by a Cossack Slaps Wyoming changing hands on the results of the troupe. BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 27—Kentucky Garden winners and where there is that As a burly guard on one of the teams much involved someone is going to get University's quintet scored its sixth said yesterday, "What GI cares about straight triumph last night, downing approached. College gambling is not a watching me go skidding along on my haphazard affair participated in by a few Wyoming, 50-46, in the opener of a nose when he can look at a Varga Girl double-header which saw Puerto Rico track bookies during the off season ; it is with a bunch of red, white and blue birds Dick Woodring a big time racket all by itself. These University turn back Canisius, 40-37, in odds often quoting the prices the floating around her?" Warrior Ace the windup. However, all the long runs command- gamblers are offering arc not set by guess Ashley Anderson, former Wisconsin back, With seven minutes remaining, Ken- work and too often they are set by in- ing attention probably won't be in gals' tucky pulled into the lead for good. Alex formation not available to the public. stockings, and that's where the Shuttle- and Pvt. Earl Dosey, formerly of Purdue, Groza and Jack Tingle of Kentucky, and Raders and Warriors take their bows. Gambling in college sports has grown have helped keep the Raders in the un- Ted Rogers of Wyoming were tied for to such proportions there is now a cen- Both clubs have specialists in that beaten class for two years, And in a lad scoring honors with 14 points apiece. DIZZY TROUT HAL NEWHOUSER tral clearing house known to the trade department. The galloping feats of Pfc by the name of Sgt. Dick Woodring, from Rafael Pinero paced the Puerto Ricans. five record compiled before he left for as the "Minneapolis House." It is Amarillo, Tex., the Warriors have a half- who staved off a last-half Canisius tally, the Army in August. known among the touts as a reliable back who a couple of years ago was very with 12 points. The Islanders had a Trout grabbed the earned-run title with trading firm dealing in sports information Tourney Points Up much in America's gridiron limelight. To 24-13 lead at the intermission. a 2.12 average and Newhouser was second and betting prices, and bookies recall just one of his achievements while with 2.22. Dizzy pitched 352 innings, pay for the information they get Cage Restrictions playing for the Texas Aggies, he galloped tossed seven shutouts, pitched 33 complete from the Minneapolis House just 102 yards through the Fordham Rams in Southerners to Rely games and faced 1,323 batters. as they would pay for a pair of OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 27—The three-day, eight-team college basketball the 1941 Cotton Bowl classic. On Passes Against North Newhouser was second in complete hoots at Montgomery Ward's. This Come Varga girls, Cossacks or pigeons, games with 75 and led in strikeouts with house collects sports information all tournament starting here tonight should MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 27— provide some interesting information on the Shuttle-Raders and Warriors need 187. while Trout fanned 144. Prince Hal over the country and sets prices and make no apologies. When word got around that the Northern was second in percentages with .763, fol- wholesales information on sports events just what effect the anti-goal-tending rule line would average 200 pounds in the has on those big guys who used to spend lowed by Nelson Potter of the pennant- throughout the nation. They work annual Blue-Grey football game Satur- winning Browns, who won 19 against through professional agents or dope col- half the night knocking opponents' sots Another Cadet Threat day, the Southerners went to work on out of the basket, seven losses for .731. Trout was third, lectors and naturally the best bet is to SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27—Earl plans to outflank the Yankees' wall behind Joe Heving of Cleveland. haw someone on the teams giving them Three of the nation's outstanding aerially. the dope, or second best someone on "goons" will be on display here in Bob "Jug" Girard, Wisconsin's 18-year-old For the fourth straight year nobody the college campus. "Foothills" Kurland, the Oklahoma halfback who will play in the New Year's Charlie Trippi, former Georgia ace in the league pitched a no-hitter. The best Aggies' seven-foot center, George Kok, Day Eastern Charity football game. re- who played this season with the Third performance was a one-hitter by Jack NED Irish, the Garden basketball mag- vealed yesterday that he is beaded for Air Force Gremlins, and Pete Leyden, Kramer of the Browns. Bill Dietrich of nate, has made an effort to run the six-foot-ten of Arkansas, and Bill Henry, Rice's six-foot-eight point collector. West Point. He plans to finish the cur- former Texas backfieldcr who spent this Chicago and Earl Wynn of Washington gamblers out of the Garden, but the fact rent semester at Wisconsin and then enter season with Randolph Field, are doing led the circuit in losses with 17 apiece is, if he stamped out gambling he would At least one coach—Hank Iba of the Aggies—claims that the new rule is a Cornell to bone up on some courses pre- most of the passing in the pre-game and Rufe Gentry of Detroit issued the stamp out a great deal of Garden basket- paiatory to entering the academy, drills. most walks, 108. ball. Not all of those 17,000 people were blessing in disguise to coaches with bean- at the Garden the other night because poles on their squads, and he points out either St. Francis or Muhlenberg were that Kurland can now save his energy dear to their hearts. They were there for since he doesn't have to concentrate on the same reason they go to the horse running the length of the court to tend Big Seven Returns to Prewar Court Level races—and that. ain't to watch the nags goal. DENVER. Dec. 27 (AP)—Big Seven mainly freshman-manned, run. basketball returns to the Rocky Moun- Colorado, which gave up the sport after The hardest comment to answer about Maulers Seek New Year's Tilt tains with a full complement this winter 1941-42 and turned its fieldhouse over to such gambling is, "So what?" But it after two blank years. the Navy as a dormitory, now has its is true that gambling makes for a bad Moore's Maulers of the 12th Replace- facilities back and, in a sort of reverse smell and dishonesty. Judge Landis did ment Depot, who rolled to ten victories A tiff over football matters which led lend-lease, has some sailor-marine mate- a good job of keeping professional base- against two losses and a tie the past Denver University to drop out of the rial still training at CU to draw upon. ball divorced from the professional season, are anxious to book a football circuit and cut it to Size Six after the game for New Year's Day. Teams inter- 1941-42 season is patched up now, and In the independent collegiate field, bettors and it might be a good idea if Colorado College will send out a team of the colleges went at the business of ested should contact Hank Lecy of the the manpower shortage that reduced it to a ARC athletics department. Telephone one-team league last year has been over- sailors and marines with high school ex- wiping the gamblers out of college perience, and Montana and Montana athletics. Gerrard 5616. come by eager freshmen, deferred students and returning servicemen. State will pick up where they left off two years ago. Utah, only conference school playing In the independent amateur-military the game last season, has but one man division, the drumming will be louder than VolsFumeatSoftToucliCharge I left of the youthful Redskin band that last year. I speared the National Collegiate Athletic Special to The Stars and Stripes Denver's clique of independent amateur charges, but his only comment is. Association championship with an over- PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 27—The Ten- "Southern Cal looks like a mighty good time triumph over Dartmouth in New veterans who beat the courts together year nessee football team which lines up team, but we didn't come out here just for after year—Jack McCracken, Bob (Ace) York City last March. He is Arnold Gruenig, Art Unger and Pete Leuty— against Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl the trip." Ferrin. won't be the best football team ever to have rallied again, under the name of Barnhill's standouts through the past Coach Vadat Peterson will surround represent the Volunteers, but it'll prob- campaign have been Halfback Buster Ambrose Jellymakers. As they have for ably be the maddest. Ferrin with freshmen and deferred upper ten seasons, they will shoot for AAU Stephens, a 180-pound freshman, and classmen and send them out to see if The Vols are boiling over the charge Bob Doblestein, a guard who got All- honors. that Southern Cal picked a soft touch for they can become basketball ambassidors Military installations in the Rockies America consideration. Bill Bevis, a kid like the men before them, its Tournament of Roses opposition, and from Florida who received the trophy Arnold Ferrin from the Casper Air Base in Wyoming to Denver, which played independent the Deming Air Base in New Mexico are even though they don't measure up to the awarded annually to the best blocking Back With NCAA Champs Trojans on paper they probably could back in the Southeastern Conference, and basketball last year, is back in the con- building teams of former college and in- make a game of it on anger alone. ference with a new coach, Cliff Rock, wood this winter after a year idle- dependent players for inter-post gompeti- six-foot-seven Center Russel Morrow head coach at Kansas State last yea!, and It is evident that Coach John Barnhill also have played some spectacular 'foot- ness. Wyoming will be under the direc- tion. feels much the same as his men about the two veterans, Larry Sewald and Herb tion of the man who coached the Cowboys Five army teams in the Denver area ball for Tennessee. Vean. Starting backs besides Bevis and to the NCAA•championship in 1943—Ev will compete with the Ambrose amatears Help Wanted Stephens the Trojans will have to watch Colorado State, Utah State, Wyoming Shelton. Like Wyoming, the ...'olorado in the Denver Victory League, now in its are Casey Stephenson, who played with and Brigham Young return to the hard- Aggies, Utah Aggies and BYU w'll he second season. —AND GIVEN Iowa Pre-Flight and two years with Write your question or problem to Help Western, Kentucky Teachers, and Full- By Courtesy of United Features By Al Capp Wanted. The Stars and Stripes. 37, Upper Li'l Abner Brook St., London, WI, or APO 413, U.S. back Mark Major, a Knoxville boy. 0' COURSE AK 1,001KP:P—THET Aemy. Telephone U.K. lime HO. Ext. 2131. Gamblers have installed Southern Cal LOOKED AT Tw' HORSPITTABLE. PAPER. MIGHTY GOOD-NAY-CHuRREO APOs Wanted as 19-point favorites in the classic—but I NT' RUST' N' IT STRANGER IS LETTIN' M kt. Alden REYNOLDS. Springfield. Mass. that just makes the Vols madder, and WERE ,Toorr- MAMMY LOOK INSIDE Lt. Valentine 3, RIZZA Pvt. Rober possibly enhances their chances. r='.4.0crone-,cy.t;.4v HIS FLYIN'ImA0.11NE SCHWARTZ, Ord.: Joe STYDAHAR ; Sgt. caw, .4!&10-.947 AH t5 Tao Clarence SHANK, Canton, Ohlo Plc Daniel OvO/e/F/E0 70 STOEFFLER, Long Island S/Sgt. Becky SHARP /T/7 Maurice and John SULLIVAN; Robert TALK- American Hockey League INGTON, Champagne. It!.: Lt. Richard TASKER Indianapolis 2, Sr. Louis I Woodniere, L.I.: Sgt. Douglas TURNER. Ft Other teams not scheduled. Worth. Texas: S/Sgt. Philip TUCY; Lt. Richard EASTERN DIVISION Vander PLATT; Robert W. WRIGHT. Buffalo WLTP WL TP Buffalo .. 15 10 3 33 Providence 8 16 2 IF Basketball Gamest Wanted Hershey . 13 10 3 29 ASKETBALL games wanted by — Station lios- Pitall with any team In the ETD at a given WESTERN DIVISION time and place. Home and home can be Worked WLTP WL TP T. out iu suit both parties.—Write to Lt. lames A. Incrn'polis 15 7 7 37 Cleveland 12 8 5 29 Weir, c/0 Help Wanted. Pittsburgh 13 12 3 29 St. Louis, • 5 17 3 13

Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944 Four Walls Do Not a Prison Make Regency Plan • Stettinius and His First Team Reported OK d By the Greeks Greek political leaders and Allied representatives agreed last nifght on the setting up of a regency in Greece until the people vote whether they want the King back or not, an American com- mentator reported in a broadcast from Athens. No further details were given. However, the undeclared civil war con- tinued during the second meeting of the Greek all-party peace parley, earlier press dispatches said. Gunfire was heard near the secret conference-site after h 45-minute truce between ELAS (resistance) and British forces, when ELAS delegates passed through a narrow stretch of terri- tory to reach the site. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden did not attend yesterday's meeting. Churchill having told the Gre,ms the previous night that he hoped they would reach an agreement among themselves. However, he was reported to be staying M Athens in case he were called back to the conference. It's getting rough on the home front. Especially when a swanky San Francisco hotel Addressing the delegates Tuesday A recent meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave members a announced that—to combat the housing shortage—it would install 115 plywood single night. Churchill said Britain had no terri- chance to look over new State Department officials. Left to right (front): Joseph rooms in one of its ultra-smart jade and ivory shops. The artist drew the above torial or economic ambitions in Greece, C. Grew, undersecretary; Sen. Tom Connally (D.-Tex.), committee chairman; and version of one of the "cells." They're "for men only." and said he and Eden had gone to Athens Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. In the background (1. to r.): Assistant with the approval of President Roosevelt secretaries Archibald MacLeish, W. L. Clayton, James C. Dunn and Nelson and Marshal Stalin. Britain's only in- Rockefeller. Life in Those United States terest in using troops, Churchill said, was to end disorder and make possible an election by secret ballot. Stays Whole in 2 Wars, HopeofMaking Army Hospitals Given Thanks to a Better 'Ole V1 Bombs Hit WITH XIITit CORPS, Dec. 27— After 26 years the geological sub- It Victory Fades stratum of the Argonne Forest is about Clean Bill After Probe the same, according to Capt. William WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (ANS)— North England Military strategists are now tentatively WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (ANS)—Except for isolated cases of dehydrated Hague. VI bombs were launched recently On Oct. 12, 1918, as a second Iooey adding three to six months to their esti- patients and the use of ancient eggs, Army hospitals got a clean bill of against targets in northern England. with the Third Infantry Division, mate of a date for victory in Europe, The health today from the House Military Affairs Committee. A preliminary Manchester., a great industrial city, was Hague shacked up in a cold, damp, Associated Press reported today. one of the places hit, the German News report said that, generally speaking, sick and wounded soldiers were receiving gravel-floored foxhole. Next day he There still is hope in high places that Agency claimed. left, chasing Jerry. the best of treatment. Gen. Eisenhower will be able to turn the This may mark a new phase in German Now a captain and still chasing Jerry, Allied reverse on the Western Front into The investigation resulted from "rumors of disquieting nature that sick and terror-strategy. Previously German fly- Hague was strafed on Sept. 17 and an early and decisive victory, but at the wounded soldiers in many instances were being crowded into inadequate, crude. bombs were concentrated on southern dived for the nearest hole. There was moment it is a waning hope. uncomfortable makeshift hospital buildings, often inadequately equipped and England, including the sprawling London something familiar about it, and sud- insufficiently staffed with doctors, nurses and attendants," the report said. area. Along with this sober estimate of the denly it dawned on Hague it was the fighting has come a conviction, AP said, Cited to the War Department were conditions in one hospital where, the Several children, two I8-month-old same hole he had dug 26 years before. committee said, there was "no air conditioning in operating rooms, and the windows babies and an 80-year-old woman were that at least part of the German success'' must be kept closed even in hottest weather. It is difficult for a surgeon and killed in one of the recent attacks on was due to overoptimism throughout the staff to operate under such conditions. Patients often become so dehydrated as northern England. Allied High Command. to require administration of intravenous fluids in order to assure recovery." American soldiers aided in rescue work Nazi Bombs at Front Military men here believe the enemy The report added: "Eggs served in one convalescent hospital were found to have when one northern town was hit. counter-offensive is probably aimed at been inspected nine months previously. The committee representative can attest Kill U.P. Correspondent Antwerp. If successful, it would snap to their odoriferousness when opened. Catsup was used to disguise their evil taste." Report Nazis Step Up IN BELGIUM, Dec. 27 (AP) the Allied supply lines and throw a huge —Jack Frankish, 30, United Press noose around the armies on the northern What a Honeymoon Cold Wave Moves East V-Weapon Experiments war correspondent, and three Belgian sector of the front. MYITKYINA, Dec. 27 (AP)—Sgt. CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (ANSI—The STOCKHOLM, Dec. 27 (UP)—The soldiers were killed today when four Robert Sternad, of Cleveland, was guest Eastern states were on the receiving end Germans have increased their flying-bomb German dive bombers raided a hotel in Obedience of honor at a wedding party here on today of a cold wave which yesterday and rocket experiments on the Danish which some war correspondents had been ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 27 Christmas Day, but the bride was not pushed temperatures in Wyoming 'o 26 island of Bornholm, in the Baltic, accord- temporarily quartered. (ANS)—The teacher told Beverly Harris present. Sternad was married by mail degrees below zero and in Illinois to 24 ing to latest reports from the Danish Several other correspondents, including that her report card had to be signed by to Miss Dorothy Marelt, of Ceveland, below. Temperatures in the high 20s Were Press Service here. Several radio stations Harold Denny, of the New York Times. her father. Beverly followed instructions and his marriage certificate came as a forecast for the Midwest region now that have been built on the island to control George Hicks, American broadcaster, and literally. Weeks later the card, signed Christmas present. the frigid zone has shifted. \ -weapons launched from the experi- Neil Sullivan, news cameraman, were in- by MM 3/c V. K. Harris, arrived from mental station at Peenemunde. jured. "Somewhere in the South Pacific." U.S. Gets the Bottle-Opener Set for New Year' Eve NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (ANS)—The fact that New Year's Eve falls on Sunday will muffle the popping of liquor corks in many parts of the U.S., but where the How C47s Supply GIs Cut Off in Belgium laws permit there'll be a rousing welcome for the New Year. Night-club reservations are at a premium here and other big cities where By Richard Wilbur money is plentiful and drinks may be sold on Sunday. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Where Sunday liquor sales are forbidden—places like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, WITH THE 434TH TROOP CARRIER GROUP. Over Cleveland and Birmingham, Ala.—celebrations ut home will be the rule. Drop Zone in Belgium, Dec. 24 (delayed by censorship)— Newark (N.J.) taverns may stay open all night if they wish on New Year's Eve, and Utah—which doesn't permit Sunday dancing—puts no curb on year- Christmas bundles from scores of C47 troop carrier planes end revelry so long as the joy-maker brings his own drinks. have just plunged down by green, yellow and red parachutes Bars in Bridgeport, Conn., East Orange, N.J., Denver, Colo., and hundreds and landed near a snow-covered field, marked by colored of other communities may open their doors the moment the New Year rings in, smudges from smoke pots, to re-supply an American unit although many probably won't. surrounded by German forces below in the Bastogne area. Gls are streaking across the snow. and from this plane, 500 feet above ground, we can see them beginning to collect Pyle at Top of Heap Gotham Butchers Strike the bundles—tons of ammunition, K-rations and medical NEW YORK, Dec.. 27 (ANS)—Ernie NEW YORK. Dec, 27 (ANS)—About supplies—the kind of Christmas present the German-encircled Pyle's -Brave Men," a collection of 34 per cent of Manhattan's butcher shops Gls really wanted. columns written during his travels with were closed yesterday in protest against IC47s of Ninth Troop Carrier Command, taking off from OPA regulations fixing ceiling prices on troops in Normandy, hit the top of the England again yesterday, dropped more supplies to trapped meat but not on livestock. Mayor F. H. American soldiers in the Bastogne area. In four days— non-fiction best-seller lists. Pyle's new LaGuardia made a tour cif markets and Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and yesterday—the C47s have book is a sequel to "Here Is Your War," found the wholesalers' supplies low. The flown many sorties to re-supply the encircled ground troops which dealt with the Mediterranean cam- situation, he said, "justifies action by the with tons of 105-jnm, shells, small arms ammunition, .30-cal. paign and which has been adapted to the government in controlling prices all the machine-guns, K-rations and. medical supplies.) screen under the title of "GI Joe." way up or all the way down." This is the second consecutive day that the unarmed troop carriers have roared across from England, sped deep into Fear Vet Training for Non-Existent Jobs France, and, with fighter support above, made the final run through flak concentrations in Belgium to drop parabundles WASHINGTON. Rec. 27 (ANS)—The Armed Forces Committee on Educa- for the ground men, cut off from the American lines by von tion, which President Roosevelt disclosed today had been disbanded at its own Rundstedt's breakthrough for more than a week. request because most of its recommendations had been realized in the GI Bill of The C47 I traveled in, piloted by Maj. Thomas Ricketts Jr., Rights, declared that a situation of "explosive character" may develop if post-war of Richmond, Va., was flying so smoothly that it was possible government-financed educational programs train thousands of former servicemen and to typewrite in the long cabin where four doorloads, each women for jobs which do not exist. The committee, which was headed by Maj. Gen. F. N. Osborn and appointed filled with 200 pounds of .30-cal. ammunition, were ready to by Mr. Roosevelt when he signed legislation for drafting 18- and 19-year-olds, be dropped. suggested that the problem be met by cooperation among educational institutions, A gale of winter wind blew into the ship as Cpl. Kenneth with federal financial aid, so that ex-GIs would be instructed in fields where job Cade, of Kansas City, Kan., crew chief, opened the cargo opportunities would be greater. Under the GI Bill of Rights, veterans meeting door near the drop zone so that the door bundles could be certain requirements may receive from one to four years of college education shoved out, at the same time that six parapacks, each loaded with government assistance. with 300 pounds of 75-mm. ammunition, slung under the ship in special racks, could be released. Ike Cables Condolences The aerial supply missions for soldiers trapped in Belgium Wire Bristles —first combat job given Troop Carrier Command since the OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 27 (ANS) PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 27 (ANSI— airborne landings in Holland—were planned as soon as the —The telegraph company told Jane Mrs. Annie Eisenhower. aunt of Gen. Germans broke through the First Army sector, but had Schneider she had a money order waiting Eisenhower, received condolences yester- weather grounded the C47s until yesterday,. for her. Instead of a fortune she had day from the Supreme Commander on the 1 wo soldiers of an American unit trapped by the German offen- Lt. Col, Joel L. Crouch, of Riverside, Cal., opened the hoped for, the order turned out to be death of her husband, Abraham Lincoln sive near Bastogne, Belgium, race across the snow toward a aerial supply operation, without fighter escort, by landing for one cent. But she evened the score Eisenhower. The cable saick "Please parapack containing supplies, dropped from a U.S. troop carrier paratroopers to direct other troop carrier planes to the drop with the sender, wiring an indignant accept deepest sympathy in loss of Uncle plane. zone. "Thanks"—collect. Abe." Terry and the Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate By Milton Caniff 'Iron Lung' Mother Has Baby L SHALL ATTEMPT TO FIND MEANWHILE... HOW THE PEOPLE STAKE THE SOLDIER 1b WHOM /T AT MY MILITARY CAF'...rT I ALAS, FRIEND IT IS AS I 505PECTEI7 —THIS BELONGS... aur SORELY I WILL TERRY, THERE 15 AS IF THIS WERE BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 27 G. Hobart Hitchcox, who is with a tank MILITARY CAP L gOtIND IN THE NOT BE BEORPOGEO THE WEARING HAPPENING IN A SlORY.! outfit on the Western Front. The latest IS LITTLE TIME (ANS)—Hospital attaches described today DARK PASSAGE BEARS THE NAME OF ctIC.14 A NOBLE COVERING FOR TO ASSIST ME BRIEF HOOK OR. TWO... how they applied artificial respiration at word from Hitchcox was dated two weeks OF ITS OWNER... A AUTHORMES IN ago from Belgium. FINDINO WILI,OW five-minute intervals to M -s. Iva Hitch- Dr. Frederick J. Nelges, who performed BELINDA! it 000 cox—an infantile paralysis victim who a caesarian operation to deliver the 37- zi has been in an iron lung for the last 15 year-old mother's first baby, said the child weeks—when she gave birth to a three- wag expected to live and that the mother pound daughter on Christma,. Day, two "is doing fine." He said Mrs. Hitchcox months ahead of time. had suffered no ill effects from the birth Red Cross officials were atteni;, ing to and that she had been returned to the get word of the bir:i to the fathei, Capt. iron lung. ti A Prim ed an England by The Tones Publishint Company. Limited, Printing Muse &mine. Landon. E.C.4, and Published by die United Slates Armed Forces-28-12-44.