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Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francah Dieser Weg ist gesperrt. THE ST&RS mmm Mettez-vous a l'abri. Deesser Vayk ist gespehrt. Met-ay VOO-Z ah la-BREE. This road is closed. Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces f^S^^G^K BS^^^S?'in the EuroPean Theater of Operations Take cover. Vol, 1—No. 103 lFr, New York — PARIS — London 1 Fr. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1944 Rpds Open World's Biggest Squeeze Play Allies Smashing New Drive On Prussia Escape Routes in

The Red Army has launched a massive new • offensive at Wild Nazi Flight East Prussia from the south, Germany admitted yesterday, and in the first hours pene- Final'18 Push Began trated the Nazi lines at two British Crack points- At the same time 26 Years Ago Today German radio admitted the Twenty-six years ago today Last Barrier Soviets were fighting only 45 the First and Second U.S. miles from Budapest follow- Armies launched the big offen- At Maas ing an apparent break-through on sive which ended the first World the Hungarian plain. War 12 days later. The big drive toward East Prus- The grand assault, which Trundling their equipment sia was said to have been started opened at dawn after a Hal- in baby carriages stolen from from bridgeheads across the Narew lowe'en barrage, drove into the Dutch housewives, remnants River above Warsaw with numer- Meuse-Argonne sector and dis- of the German 15th Army ous tank . and infantry divisions. lodged the Germans from fled in disorganized retreat The river runs through Poland trenches they had occupied for roughly parallel with the southeast- months. out of Western Holland last ern border of East Prussia. night as the British smashed Nazi Attacks Repulsed the last line of German re- A new Soviet offensive from this New Air Blows sistance south of the River direction apparently would be aimed Maas. Allied air and artillery not only for a break-through, but attacks destroyed transports be- also at establishing conditions for Boost Jap Toll A United Nations' pincers has closed around Germany. Virtually hind the fleeing Germans and a resumption of Marshal Chernya- bombed bridges ahead of them. khovsky's campaign from the east. every mile of German frontier is menaced now by Allied and Russian Pursuing British and Canadian His army already is some 20 miles armies squeezing the Reich. To 64 Ships forces, which kept losing contact inside the East Prussian border. New U.S. air blows in the Philip- with the fleeing enemy, reached the Strong German counter-attacks pines yesterday boosted the toll of Maas at Kapelle and last night against the southern anchor of Japanese ships to 64, while Allied were closing on the German escapa Chernyakhovsky's line were re- Seven Million Allies Clamp sources estimated the enemy's bridge at Geertrudenburg, prin- pulsed with heavy Nazi losses, Mos- casualties in last week's naval cipal route across the river. Front- cow reported, as the Russians con- battles at 25,000 to 35,000 men. line dispatches said this thrust solidated on the snow-covered fields 15,000-Mile Pincers on Reich Meanwhile Gen. MacArthur's isolated thousands of Germans for an expected drive on the Baltic headquarters announced that in caught in the Hertogenbosch area seaport: of Koenigsberg. The Ger- the first ten days

2-Way Radios More than 1,000 RAF heavies laid 4,000 tons of bombs on Cologne WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (ANS). Monday night in pursuance of a —The Nation's Taxicab Companies systematic plan to wipe out the today asked the Federal Commu- nications Commission for two-way Rhine city section by section and frequency modulation radio faci- render it useless to the Germans lities for the control of cabs. as a base for operations on the The American Congress of Phy- Western Front. sical Medicine also requested as- The assault was the 16th on Co- signment of wave lengths in a logne during October. It was con- postwar radio plan for the treat- centrated on the industrial west side ment of cancer and other diseases. •following Saturday's attack on the Dr. W. H. Schmidt said that more east side. than 50,000 diathermy machines The raid was described officially are in operation and high fre- as "one of the most remarkable quency current often "is a matter ever carried out" by the RAF. It of life and death." 17.S. Army Signal Corps was made in bright moonlight but Signal Corps men endure tbe same perils and discomforts as the men Twenty or more channels were not one bomber was lost. In a they photograph in battle action. Mud is one major misery. Here, requested by the taxicab compa- Back home for the first time successful feint to draw off night nies. They said this service would fighters, Mosquitoes raided Berlin getting their jeep out of the mire in Germany, are (left to right) in more than three years, Col, Cpl. Oscar G. Cook, Detroit; Pvt. Fred Mahnquist, Elizabeth, tij., help reduce crime by co-operation Donald Blakeslee, heavily de- just before and after the Cologne with police, be valuable in storms, attack. and Sgt. Chester A. Bolck, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Sgt. Bernard corated ETO Mustang fighter Newman is behind the wheel. All four are Signal Corps lensmen. fires and other disasters, relieve pilot, shows his medals to his The synthetic oil plant at Bot- traffi: congestion and conserve niece and nephew, Evelyn and trofs, in the Ruhr, was raided by gasoline, oil and rubber. Clifford Blakeslee, in his Fair- .the RAF by daylight yesterday. A Bum Fit, But Sam Maps New U.S. Air Route port Harbor, Ohio, home. Brunswick Destroyed Giant Pincers NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (ANS).— Meanwhile photo reconnaissance Made the Pants for Vs Air line service between New York showed that Brunswick, important Squeeze Reich and Miami which will cut almost rail and industrial city, has been BOSTON, Oct. 31.—The sanc- N.Y.BoyFound almost destroyed. tity of the male's right to wear four hours from the present flying (Continued from Page 1) time was predicted yesterday by While Ninth Air Force activity the pants in the family, an issue G. T. Baker, president of the Na- Tied and Slain yesterday was limited, month-end of deep concern to GIs used to tisans are cutting them off on the tional Air Lines. He said a new figures showed that Ninth fighters seeing pictures of trousered girl Dalmatian coast of uJgoslavia. and bombers destroyed or damaged defense workers, was strengthen- route swinging out over the ocean NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (ANS).— In the Arctic, the Russians have at some points as much as 300 miles 367 enemy planes, 3,984 railroad ed recently when Boston Univer- The trussed and gagged body of cars and 738 locomotives in October sity officials banned the wear- moved across Lapland and are in is expected to save 227 miles and William Drach, 4, was found by his Norway. cut the present eight-hour schedule. at a loss of 142 aircraft. The Ninth ing of slacks by co-eds. father last night in the dumbwaiter flew 19,039 sorties, mainly in sup- The back-to-dresses movement shaft of his apartment house. The Germans, who a year ago New Boardwalk Anchorage port of the First and Third Armies. seems widespread, according to were masters of more countries Police believed he was strangled Reconnaissance showed that 85 Mrs. Eleanor P. Whitaker, femi- to death by his brother, Robert, 8, than Napoleon, have been pushed ASBURY PARK, N.J., Oct. 31 feet of wall along the important nine fashion authority. She back into Germany, and at all the (ANS).—City officials have finally while the boys were playing their east-west Mittelland canal at Min- claims that women war workers favorite gaime of " commando" and gateways of the Reich the Allies taken a tip from Father Neptune den, Germany, was destroyed by are switching back to dresses are beating in doors. and are considering relocating the said that Robert admitted he had U.S. heavies last Thursday, draining because they are finding out boardwalk. A September tidal wave tied up the younger boy. The U.S. Seventh and the the canal for three miles and that men don't care .to see wo- Armies are hammering at the Bel- deposited sections of the walk two But ohn Drach, the father, refu- stranding more than 30 barges and men wearing slacks. fort Gap. The U.S. Third is before blocks inland and caused $1,500,000 sed to accept the theory, saying tugs. damage. Suggestions have been that handkerchiefs tied around Bil- Metz, historic invasion road which A few Mustangs and Thunder- the Germans have travelled for made that Ocean Avenue be closed ly's face did not belong to the fa- bolts yesterday attacked, a supply mily or "to anybody we know." more than 1,000 years. Canadian and a new promenade be built dump near Saarburg, 20 miles east MD Recruiting and British armies are opening up there. Neighbors agreed with Drach. of Luxemburg. One is missing. They said the neighborhood had Antwerp for the push into Ger- Legless Aviatrix Solos been terrorized by juvenile gangs. many from the Low Countries Indian Troops Tighten Halted byArmy around the Siegfried Line. The CINCINNATI, Oct. 31 (ANS).— U.S. First Army has forced one Mrs. Alverna Babbs, 26, legless since Allied Pincers in Italy WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (ANS).— German door at Aachen. infancy because of an accident, Huge Nazi Rocket Site The Army has discontinued recruit- In the East, Gea Chernya- made a solo flight in her own air- ROME, Oct. 31 (UP).—Indian khovsky's Soviet forces have ham- Discovered Near Calais ing civilian physicians. plane today. A Civil Aeronautics troops of the Eighth Army have mered into East Prussia and are authority spokesman said she was Atop a hill near Calais, the Ger- crossed the Ronco River and es- Announcing this today, Chairman attempting to force the gap at the first person so afflicted to get mans built an enormous cylindrical tablished a bridgehead near Mel- Paul V. McNutt of the War Man- Insterburg, beginning of a fortified a student's flying certificate. Her cement structure 24 feet in dia- dola to bring the southern prong power Commission said the Navy's zone like the Siegfried. plane is equipped with hand-oper- of the Allied pincers around Forli recruitment program must be con- ated controls. meter and extending deep into the ground which purportedly was a to within six miles of that key tinued because of an urgent need launching device for stratosphere point on the Bologna^Rimini high- for approximately 3,000 additional Switch-Artists Replace Where Do We Come In? rockets, the Paris newspaper Re- way, Allied Headquarters announced medical officers. The Public Health CHICAGO, Oct. 31. — Nylon sistance said yesterday. today. Service and the Veterans Adminis- Tank Engine in 3 Hours hosiery was the winner in a poll German soldiers boasted that Fifth Army units, taking advan- tration also are continuing to re- by a Chicago newspaper of "What the rockets launched from there tage of improving weather, made cruit doctors. WITH THE FIRST INFANTRY I Want Most." In the last stretch, would not only bombard Britain small gains in their southern drive There are about 47,500 physicians DIVISION, Oct. 31.—A record for girdles snapped into second place but would "reduce New York's sky- toward Bologna, from which they on duty with the Army and fewer changing a Sherman tank radial and new shoes were third among scrapers to dust." Thousands of are about eight miles. than 13,000 with the Navy. engine—three hours flat—is claim- more than 300,000 women polled. workers, mostly foreigners, were ed by a maintenance platoon com- employed on the construction. manded by 2/Lt. Harold D. Ho- Bossy's Busy $10 Bid Buys Aeronca wenstine. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (ANS). Boston Archbishop Named At Surplus Plane Sale West Front. Working under T/Sgt. Lelahd —Milk production in 1945 will top Murray, of Winn, Mich., T/4s Joe BOSTON, Oct. 31.—The Most Rev. (Continued front Page 1) Stancel, Danny Binigne and Arthur this year's output by 1,000,000,000 Richard J. Cushing, auxiliary bishop DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 31 (ANS).— pounds if government subsidies to Ruling, all of Chicago, did the of the Catholic Diocese of Boston The first public auction of surplus job. dairy farmers are continued, the since 1939, has been appointed Arch- training planes today brought ap- the opening of Antwerp ports would Agriculture Department reported bishop of Boston's Apostolic delega- proximately $35,000. enable the Allies to deal a death today. British Air Service Begun tion by Pope Pius XII, it was an- A battered Aeronca was knocked blow to Northern Germany and Ber- nounced today. Bishop Cushing down for $10, while the day's top lin before winter. German troops LONDON, Oct. 31 (Renter).—Re- Bear Runs Wild succeeds William Cardinal O'Con- price of $7,500 went for a twin- were urged to defend the Scheldt gular commercial air service be- RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 31 (ANS). nell, who died April 22. engined Beechcraft trainer. blockade positions at all costs. tween London, Madrid and Lisbon —Bootsie, a 300-pound black bear, On the southern front, mean- has been started by British Over- escaped from a state Fish and while, U.S. troops of Japanese seas Airways Corp. with planes car- Game Commission exhibit today descent whose presence with the rylng passengers, freight and mall. and severely clawed a spectator, Airborne Patrol Completes U.S. Seventh Army was disclosed before she was recaptured. last week, were reported in combat in the Vosges mountains, according D-Day Fleet Missed OKs Parcels to Italy Mission Via a Nude Deal to Associated Press. The reports said the Japanese-Americans were Disaster by 13 Days WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (ANS). assigned the job of infiltrating in- — Postmaster General Frank C. ADVANCED AIRBORNE BASE, Once during that time the Ger- to concealed German gun and Had Gen. Eisenhower chosen Walker tonight authorized ship- mans came near the building and mortar positions in the snow- June 19 when the tides were ment of parcel post gift packages HOLLAND, Oct. 31.—Among the occupational risks of being an air- the men huddled in one room. The covered mountains. again right instead of June 6 to Italy. Jerries searched the house with a Front dispatches from Western borne infantryman is the ever- for D-Day, history's greatest as- fine tooth comb—all the rooms but Holland said the Germans were sault fleet might have been present danger that you never Chinese Censor Goes one. pulling out so hastily that corres- wrecked in the unexpected Win- know when you're going to lose They started back for their unit pondents witnessed scenes remind- ter gale which struck the Chan- Chop Chop on Stilwell your pants. at night, but when they reached ing them of the Seventh German nel that day and destroyed the Not long ago two troopers of the the river, there wasn't a boat in Army retreat toward the Seine in American half of the Allied August. NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (AP).— 101st Airborne Division went on a sight. Rather than wait for day- floating dock project off NOR Through the rigid Chinese cen- patrol across the Rhine to see why light they decided to swim. They Germans were reported pouring mandy. sorship, the Associated Press the Germans weren't blasting away threw their clothes and equipment across the Maas toward Rotterdam, This was disclosed recently yesterday received the following as usual. into the river—so it wouldn't be making only a semblance of a by Rear-Admiral William Ten- dispatch from its Chungking 1/Lt. Frank A. Rose, of Port- found by the Germans—and slid stand on the Canadians' extreme nant, R.N., in describing details correspondent on Gen. Joseph land, Ore., and Pfc William R. into the cold water. left where a paratroop regiment of the vast, pre-fabricated har- W. Stilwell's recall to Washing- Forrester, of Denver, Colo., crossed They slid out again on the other was falling back slowly to Steen- bors. The winter gale broke ton to assume a new post: the river at night in a small ferry side—cold, tired, hungry and naked. bergen, northwest of Roosendaal. suddenly on a calm sea, upset- "Chungking, Oct. 29.— . . captured previously from the Ger- Explaining their predicament to Armored British vanguards rolled ting all weather predictions, he Stilwell is known to have taken mans. The boat was pulled back the somewhat startled airborne to the Maasje waterway about a said. It raged for two days and, formal leave of Chiang . . .Edi- to the Allied side as soon as they guards, they begged, borrowed and half mile below the Meuse River while severely damaging the stole enough clothing to make a on the west flank of 'the Holland tor: American censor cut 388 landed. U.S. docks, did not dislocate the words, Chinese censor 104 words, A deserted house inside the Ger- formal report at headquarters. salient. Now they're wondering whatinell British floating piers at Arro- leaving only foregoing excerpt man lines became an American ob- This is the next great water manches beach, iwhere hundreds from one sentence." servation post and the men stayed they're going to tell the supply barrier after the Maas confronting of ships took refuge, he said. there for one day and two nights. sergeant. the Germans. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3 HintMounting Supplies Move War Sabotage Man at the Throttle Is GI Jones At Top Speed

In Nazi Plants By Charles W. White In Cherbourg Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. They wear steel helmets over their engineer's By Fred Mertinke A hint that the thousands ot caps and carry pistols and carbines as they run Stars and Stripes Staft Writer. foreign workers turning out shells blacked-out trains over the rails, through tunnels CHERBOURG, Oct. 31. — Cher- in German arms factories are step- and war-torn villages to move supplies and troops oourg, the port which the Germans ping up sabotage was given by Maj. to the front. Home is neither a barracks, tent, fox- said was destroyed as completely hole nor billet—it's a little car at the end commonly as Naples, today is "the most im- Gen. Henry B. Sayler, ETO chief called a caboose but in trainman's slang, a "crum- portant port in Allied hands on Ordnance officer, at a Paris press my.'' the English Channel" as a result conference. And these guys, of Brig. Gen. C. L. Burpee's of the combined work of the U.S. Sayler said there was* a steady railway have hauled 865,713 tons of war freight Army and Navy, according to Col. increase in the number of German since D-Day, covering 146,194,616 ton miles. They James A. Crothers, harbor com- duds in the last year, possibly due took over a ruined railway system from the mander. k to sabotage or unskilled workman- French and made it go. Living most of the Supplies and equipment are pour- ship by foreign labor. . time in their crummies, bumping into the night over ing into Cherbourg 24 hours a day Using Foreign Guns tracks they couldn't be sure were still there—they from the repaired and rebuilt He added that American Ord- have done a job, all the way up to the front and harbor facilities, and thousands of nance intelligence "scavenger crews" back. soldiers and sailors are working report the Germans are using plas- They've been strafed, bombed and sniped at; are around the clock to unload, the tic wherever possible in gun con- under constant hazard from sagging tracks where cargoes and rush them to the front struction. However, workmanship bomb craters have been filled in. But the stuff by convoy, train and plane. and design in German artillery still gets there. In Two Stages are high. Ran Out of Coal 'The mere fact that four months The "scavenger" expeditions show One time early in the French campaign the men ago the port lay in smoldering that the Germans are using many on a certain line ran out of coal. They declared a ruins, and that it was in peacetime foreign guns against U.S. troops P-Call for necessary cussing and principally used as a passenger on the Western Front. Yanks have continued by feeding their fire port, make the work of building it captured French, Czech, Belgian, boxes with cross-ties, straw and into a freight-cargo harbor the English, Russian and American scrap lumber—everything but the more meritorious." Crothers said. artillery. rails behind them. The stuff got Repairing of the port was di- During one swoop ordnance men there, as it will tonight and to- vided into two stages: salvage and collected 39 heavy pieces, eight of morrow night. minesweeping work and the actual them new 88s. Captured enemy If that isn't marching on your constructional repairs. vehicles also have been converted dogs and eating the dogs for sup- Naval Ship Salvage Forces, under for U.S. use. per, Casey Jones was a flagpole command of Commodore William Saves Million a Week sitter, which he wasn't; he was a A. Sullivan, of New York—veteran Ordnance crews in one Army Railroad Man. And during a single salvage expert who has worked in Corps alone are saving the U.S. night railroad men like these a Mediterranean, European and Paci- $1,000,000 a week by servicing and captain and four EMs, poured 2,100 fic waters—began the job of mine- reissuing enemy material. gallons of fuel by hand from five- sweeping June 29, just three days "We're not missing a single bet gallon cans into the tanks of after the city had been captured in increasing our fire-power." Say- three Diesel engines. by American troops. Even before ler said. "We have weapons more The cans were hauled in a three- the mines were completely cleared, powerful, and more accurate than quarter-ton weapons carrier from salvage operations began. anything the enemy can put a dump five miles away. One en- 8,000 Men Employed against us." gineer, on another occasion, fired engines, watched rear ends of While the Navy was busy with He said three new U.S. weapons minesweeping and salvage work, the on the Western Front are the trains and switched without leav- ing his controls for 96 hours. (The task of refitting the harbor was 240mm. howitzer, firing a 350- Inter-State Commerce Commission started by U.S. Army engineers. Al- pound shell more than 13,000 yards; most 8,000 men were employed in the eight-inch howitzer, firing a used to say 16 was the maximum). Begrimed Faces the reconstruction work, including 200-pound shell, and the eight-inch two Port Construction Repair Bat- gun, firing a 240-pound shell. As with the line operating crews, talions, three General Service Re- Sayler said an initial supply of so with the shop battalions, whose giments and one Special Regiment. an average of 1,500 pounds of mate- maintenance function hooks up Almost 1,000 French civilians also rial was required for every Amer- with the others to make the Burpee were employed. ican in the invasion forces. To keep Line go. one man fighting required 35 For example: M/Sgt. James A. Col. James B. Cress and Col. pounds of ordnance a week. Hickey, Roxbury, Mass.; S/Sgt. Arthur J. Gorst commanded the Robert E. Mason, Van Wert, O; construction battalions,-while Col. Bazooka's a Bargain E. G. Herb, chief engineer for Nor- He added that 57,000 j-eps now and Cpl. J. R. Tate, Altoona, Pa., three typical descendants of old Candidate for the most-begrimed soldier in France, T 5 J. R. Tate, mandy Base Section, was overall are on the continent, just one of supervisor of the construction. approximately 350,000 items in the Casey who worked at the Paris Altoona, Pa., repairs a boiler for the GI railroad. Begrimed, too, are shops. What they see of Paris is his mates. (Above) Pvt. Paul Wright, Mattoon, 111.; Cpl. B. Ardito, Fifty-six locomotives were re- Ordnance catalogue. cently unloaded, with steam up During the first 100 days of fight- the insides of a lot of plain and Brooklyn, N.Y., standing, and Pvt. Ardel Hambrock, Ft. Wayne, Ind., fancy boilers. inspecting side rods on a U.S 280 locomotive. and ready to run as soon as they ing 200,000 tons of amnr.aition of Their superbly begrimed hands hit the tracks laid down at the all types was used by the Ground maintaining locomotives that Gen. Paris to replace an operating bat- pier's edge. Freight cars are also Forces. Nearly 3,000,000 roundo of and faces make. them look like a platoon of Zombies coming home Burpee runs in France. talion. (There are two kinds, swinging over the sides of ships 35-pound 105mm howitzer ammu- from a coal strike—but these Hickey, Mason, Tate & Co. and "operating" and "shop," their func- onto pier-tracks. nition have been fired up to date. people ain't goin' nowhere at pre- about 30 others under Lt. Col. E. tions linking together.) Men in Charge The bazooka—"clumsy, ugly, but G. Ringberg, Concord, N.H., took They use mostly American ma- deadly"—was one of the cheapest sent. Maj. S. Smith Fletcher, of Okla- It's honest dirt, and the gentle- over devastated Le Mans yards terial and rolling stock, most of it homa City, and Maj. Robert D. of all American weapons, Sayler late in September, where they had piled up in England for the inva- said. It costs less than 25 dollars. men of this shop outfit, represent- Scott, of Stoughton, Wis., are in ing Uncle Sam's railroaders, get to work with what they could find sion and brought over right after charge at one of the large basins, that way every day, servicing and and salvage, and moved on to D-Day. busy handling supplies on two 12- SS Tanker Kills Self hour shifts. Men like T/4s Rex D. Mess 'Magician' Gets Ring Lost in England Shackleton, of Carbondale, 111.; Hel- On Meeting Capt. Shaw All the Same to Her mer Hanson, of St. Paul, Minn., Legion of Honor Award Recovered in France and Loren Lusius, of Solon Springs, WITH 3RD ARMORED DIVIS- Whoever Cleans Up Wis., are in charge of basin section ION IN GERMANY.—The SS boys LEEDS, S. C, Oct. 31 (AP).— The FREDONIA, N. Y., Oct. 31 (AP). crews. of Hitler's personal army may wel- WITH THE SECOND INFAN- Two soldiers, T/5 Fred Sam, of come a knock-down, drag-out bat- Legion of Merit, fourth highest de- —S/Sgt. Lamont L. Brown lost his coration of the U.S. Army, has been TRY DIV, Oct. 31. —"Yes, we Fredonia high school ring in Eng- Palmyra, N.J., and T/4 Rex D. tle now and then, but they want no given to S/Sgt. William H. McCol- have just the place. The Ger- Shackleton, of Carbondale, 111., have truck with Capt. Phil Shaw, of lum, of Leeds, for contriving "ways mans took showers there," the land—and found it in France. been awarded the Bronze Star for Bridgeport, Miss., or his men. and means of making food tasty and women told the American In a letter to his mother Brown "meritorious service in the per- Capt. Shaw, commanding- officer officer looking for bathing faci- said he saw the ring on the finger formance of their duties" at a cargo of an anti-aircraft battery attached appealing" under difficult battle conditions in North Africa. lities for his troops. of an Army truck driver in France, basin by Maj. Gen. E. S. Hughes. to the 3rd Armored Division, met "Fine," the officer said, his who admitted he had found it in an Officers are high in their praise a Mark V panther tank recently hopes brightening. English field, and promptly re while reconnoitering positions for Smokes for Yanks of the work the men are doing here. SEAEF, Oct. 31 (AP).--The com- "Yes," the women added. turned it. One Negro crew unloaded 15 rail- his own AA outfit. Capt. Shaw "They used it in the last war." way cars in two hours—a record heaved a grenade into the open tur- mander of a German grenadier di- vision on the American Seventh Cesar Romero 111 which hasn't been equalled or sur- ret. Out came one Nazi, roaring KANSAS CITY, Oct. 31 (ANS). passed. Men in the crew were: mad. Up stepped a private of Capt. Army front put a smoker's and Great Depression Feared drinker's bounty on American pri- WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. — The —Movie Actor Cesar Romero, now T/4 Charles L Wilson, of Chicago, Shaw's party to take a healthy in the Coast Guard, entered the ground crew chief; T/5 Walter whack at the Kraut with a hatchet. soners. Captured documents re- AFL today predicted that a "dead- vealed an offer to his troops to pay ly depression" of 20 million of un- University of Kansas hospital today Taylor, of Palmyra, N.J., and T/5 It was too much for the superman. for observation Romero apparently Whipping out a pistol, he shouted a half bottle of cognac or 25 ciga- employed would follow the war Fred Sam, of New Orleans. rettes for every American soldier unless preventive measures were was suffering from an intestinal "Heil Hitler!" and blew his own disorder. brains out. brought in. taken immediately. Army May Discharge Sole Surviving Sons Terry And The Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff COOR 1DNVS - MEANWHILE,IN THE WAIST OP THE W WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. — Pa- P COM I NO STeAIGHT FLEEING BOAASEE rents' applications for the return OOWN —WOW from battle zones to the U.S. of the sole surviving son of any family which has lost two or more boys in battle will be given "sympathetic consideration" under a new War Department policy announced over the weekend. Each case will be decided on its Individual merits. Sole survivors of families returned to the U.S. under the new policy may be as- signed to non-hazardous duty or discharged from the Army if cir- cumstances warrant. rage * THE STAKS AiMJ STRIFES Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1944 An Editorial Twice Is Too Often Yank to the Rescue OR all their prominence, Shortly before the Second Armored Division clanked the bottles have very into a small Holland village, the fleeing Germans warned F little to do with the situa- the people they would be slaughtered by the "barbaric tion pictured here. They're /VincriCciiis " just sort of theatrical props Pfc William F. Holtje, of Albens, N.Y., one of the first to enter the town, was quickly that photographers inject surrounded by the wildly cheering render. They ran away on into the scene when they people. Suddenly, ne saw a little the double. Peters rushed up wish to indicate joviality, boy writhing on the ground, his to a machine-gun emplacement celebration, hilarity and all nand clutched to a. wire dangling and took a bead on the Jerries. that. from a power line pole. Nothing happened. The thing Holtje leaped from his natt-track, was jammed. grabbed a cigarette carton and, ' using it as an insulator pulled the So forget the bottles and wire away. His commanding officer Same Old Story look at the two old timers. pinned a Soldier's Medal on his On the lookout for enemy tanks, They are Sgt. Lewis P. lacket. Capt. D. L. Benton, of Ochlocknee, Clancy and M. Victor Petit. Ga., a 35th Division company com- mander, made a reconnaissance the They are shown holding a Tympanist Decorated other day, found no tanks but spot- little reunion in the home Before a worn battle map of ted ten Nazis on outpost duty. He Verdun. I/Sgt. Charles O. Her- of M. Petit at Mareuil-sur- called for three Yank volunteers, Ourcq. simple argument in favor ot shey, of Washington. U.C.. tym- posted the soldiers to concealed we let slip our chance M panist with the U.S. Army Band, positions and then yelled over to doing something that will make the German people recently was awarded the Ver- settle Germany's military dun Medal and became a mem- the Jerries. You know the answer. And where did they meet understand that we thought ber of the Society ot the Golden The doughs opened up, wounded before? Why, at M. Petit's hash permanently. so. We mustn't throw away several and captured the entire Book, an organization ot sol- bunch. home. And when? About 25 the sacrifices of this war by diers who (ought in the Verdun years ago, when Sgt. Clan- making the same mistake sector in World War l. Twice in his lifetime the cy's World War I battalion again. We've got to cure Hershey served with the 16th 1 Day, 22 Pillboxes tide of war has rolled over Infantry Regiment ot the First used it as a headquarters. the Boche of his yearning Twenty-two pillboxes kayoed M. Petit's horrid Twice in Division m 1918. was wounded So naturally when Sgt. for world conquest, and in one day is the record of one Sgt. Clancy's lifetime he nas near Verdun and later was a tank - and - engineer - supported Clancy's World War II out- paste this in your helmet— member of the Army ot Occu- crossed the ocean to hold company of an armored infan- fit passed that way ne vou can't cure the Boche pation near Coblenz. Germany. try regiment attacking the Sieg- back the tide of war from There he met and 'married fried Line. The company cap- dropped in on his old friend with kindness. Helena Zappey. ot Cobienz. A M. Petit. his homeland. Both times tured seven reinforced concrete the war was launched oe- son, Karl, was born to them fortifications Oct. 4 and rolled eight days after their arrival cause Germany wanted to If you try to, you'll lust up the record total next day in That's what the reporters in the U.S. Standing beside his action south of Geilenkerchen. rule the world. be setting events in motion father at the decoration cere- call a human interest story. mony was that son. Pfc Karl Commanded by Lt. Raymond S. that will eventually lead to Hershey, also a member of the Earhart, of Columbus, O., the We say it's a whale of a lot future reunions such as toe U.S. Army Band. Leader of the company worked in three teams more than that. We say 't's That's much too often. In under Platoon Leaders Lts. Mike one Sgt. Clancy and M. Petit band, Capt. Thomas F Darcy, a neat, compact, ABC- fact once was too often, out hel at Mareuil-sur-Ourcq. of Washington, served in the Levitsky, of Sharon, Pa.; An- same brigade with Hershey in drew P. Smith, of Beloit, Wis., 1918; they were wounded in the and Joe T. Harper, of Checo- tah, Okla. same engagement. TheBB a? Blow It 4hsh Cflanhs Page Sgt. York Double Trouble Oat Here German infantry and armored Here's a tip for men of the 28th Infantry Division in the ETO who Sgt. Hugo Cortese is the modern columns had stopped an American since they lowered the "three inch- Sir Walter Raleigh. Strolling on advance when T'Sgt. Joseph Pul- have wondered about lack of mail Of Mouth and Man The Aug. 5 issue of the Army and Few men have won our complete ers" at Licata, Sicily, right lip a beach with a WREN, he sug- ler, of Denison. Kan., crept for- through to Germany and the Line, ward with a field telephone so close Navy Journal says, "The Second respect as has Joe E. Brown. gested they sit and chat. Quipped Marine Division is on Saipan with For him to be made the subject of snatching some of that "4F" stuff. the WREN: "What? And get '.he to the dug-in Jerries he had to the Third Marine Division and the Been a 1A too damn long. 'King's Skirt' all full of sand?" whisper his instructions to direct ridicule (of all places in an army 28th Infantry Division." newspaper in India!) is an act that Sincerely hope we receive as cer- 'That's all right," said Cortese, artillery fire. When American 105s tain results In an opposite repeti- flushed the Nazis. Puller rushed we cannot approve. ' I'll pull off the 'President's Jacket' Cash for Proof Let's lay off the guy. He's a tion of the case in our favor.— and you can sit on it." over to a tank-destroyer, fired its Harlie B. Smith and two others. Inf. guns until the ammo ran out. then Pvt. George Waterhouse, of regular Joe.—Pfc Harry Stutz and • • • climbed through the turret and Maiden, Mass., can collect 500 four others, Sign. Co. It Happened in Germany. Pfc manned a machine gun. The next francs from Sgt. Eldred Gano, Exile Nominees Ray Zehrns sweated out a heavy day he got the DSC. of Council Bluffs, Iowa, if he Who's Got a Chair? When the day of reckoning comes mortar barrage in a flimsy fox- can prove he "walked 25 miles we recommend the following manu- hole, crawled out later and found a with full field pack in three We read of the expeditious action large piece of shrapnel imbedded in Two Star Aide given to the GI lamenting his facturers for exile in Siberia: (1) hours and 57 minutes." He who made that tent pole; (2) the mud nearby. It bore tfie Being aide to a general is not Gano, who spent 26 months being a 1A in a 4F outfit, and initials "R.Z." which didn't make always the cinch it may appear. with the infantry before join- therefore wish to zero in on a tar- The firm that designed the "C" 1/Lt. Thomas W. Grose, ot Peru, ration can that opens in the mid- Ray feel any better even though ing a 90th Division combat get of contrasting alternate. things are quieter now. Ind., aide to an armored com- MP platoon, claims it can't be How about a Combat Infantry dle; (3) The cast iron cracker com- bat team commander, wears the done. 1st Sgt. who has been spearheading pany; (4) The camouflage net per- Silver Star tor gallantry in ac- fumers; (5) The Chelsea Cigarette Never a dull moment. Two 2/Lts. Co.—T/4 John P. Murphy and five tion and the Bronze Star for others FA. of the ANC had a chance for a few meritorious service. Grose won UP Front with Mauldin days' leave in Scotland and booked the Silver Star tor climbing a sleeping compartment on the first into a burning tank and mov- For Freedom of Screech train out. Arriving at the station ing it from the path ot ad- Congratulations: B-Bag, most pop- vancing vehicles. The Bronze ular feature with this unit. How Star was for outstanding liaison about making it possible to write work durinr the Normandy breakthrough. B-Bag without our letters being subjected to usual company censor- ship. Lots of the boys would like Delivery Service to write in their pet gripes, but are Working in candle-light waile fearful of the wrath of Company enemy and American artillery officers who would naturally be in shells screamed overhead, Capt a position to make it tough on the Vincent P. Zarcone, of Decatur, 111. writer. they learned to their dismay that assisted at a German mother's Until then, I am a GI with a delivery of twin boys. The parents bunch of saved up gripes.—S/Sgt the railway officials took the rank Edward I. Smith, Ord. "lieutenant" at face value; so they named the babies Bernard and were scheduled to share the com- Vincent, for Zarcone and 174 partment with two lieutenants, de- Bernard Freeman of Brooklyn, the Could Be finitely not ANC. (We hate to spoil captain's interpreter. X-day is the day when Germany the story, but we must—hasty re- is defeated. Right? X is the 24th arrangements followed.) Jam Session letter in the alphabet. Right? So • • • S/Sgt. Francis A. Peters, of we make the 24th the day of the Sad Song. Cpls. Jerome Towers Youngstown, Ohio, while on month that the war is over. This and Adam Matusa heard a lone- guard duty spotted a couple of is the Second World War. Right? some GI singing his own version Jerries moving toward him. So we divide 24 by 2 which gives of that popular hit song, "I'll Walk He squeezed the trigger and the us 12. Right? So that gives us Alone." He was strolling along rifle jammed. He grabbed an our month. Dec. 24th 1944. Well musing sadly, "I'll walk alone, be- other piece nearby. That one any way I can dream of a white cause to tell you the truth I'm so jammed. In d speration, he Christmas. Can't I?—A. G. I. homely. I wouldn't mind being yelled to the Germans to sur- (And no more of this stuff!—Ed.) homely, if all the 4Fs I knew were homely, too." THE STARS AND STRIPES Clothing • • * Printed at the New latt Herald Cheer up, boys, the Japs nave rrlbune plant. 21 rue de Bern. Paris, Why, when it is common knowl- trouble with promotions, too. A for the U.S. armed forces under aus- edge that a combat suit is the most Yank patrol captured a rather pices of the Special Services Division, appropriate piece of GI clothing, ETOOSA. Tel : Editorial. Elysees 73-44. elderly medical officer, a first Circulation. Elysees 84-28. both for warmth and comfort, do lieutenant in the Imperial Nip- Contents passed by the OA Army they issue us such stuff as mac- ponese Army, who explained in and Navy censors Entered as second kinaws and "extra" long-johns? class matter Mar. IS. 1943, at the scanty English that though he was post office. New York. N.Y„ under We want combat suits I Every- only a lieutenant he was supposed the act of Mar. 3. 1878. thing else is being changed these to be a captain—but his papers Vol. 1, No. 103 days, why not the T/E?—We R "My, sir—what an enthusiastic welcome!" hadn't come through. Cold. J. O. W. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5 GIs in Tanks Kaffee Klatsch Bid Navy Vacates British Ports, Toil and Tears Camp 19 Days Doesn't Tempt GIs WITH U.S. SEVENTH ARMY, Steams off to New Theaters Built Historic Prance, Oct. 31 (UP).—Taking In Nazi View a leaf from the Allied book, the By J. Wes Gallagher Germans dragged loudspeakers floating Docks Associated Press Statt Correspondent. to the front lines today blaring PALENBURG, Germany, Oct. 31. in English: "Come up and see i Details ot how millions ot tons s-How would you like to live, eat us some time for a hot meal." of concrete and steel were towed and sleep for 19 days in a Sherman A short distance away Ger- across the channel to become '■float- tank, in sight of German lines man soldiers were surrendering ing harbors" along the Normandy 300 yards away? to the Americans with the com- beaches, were revealed by Supreme Virtually a whole battalion of an plaint: "We have not eaten for Headquarters last week. The tal- armored division lived that way three days." lowing article gives the inside while holding a sector near here. story, i It was a case of doing "light house- keeping" inside the cramped and By Richard D. Grueneberg chilly Shermans', or getting shot Chafes at KP 5tars and Stripes Mavy Writer. The use of dug-in tanks in de- One of the many men who played fensive positions follows the tactics After 16 Days important roles in the planning of the Russian front. Artillery and construction of the American and mortar fire from a distance "floating n a r o o r"—probably the did the tanks little damage and With'Chutists most amazing factor of the entire every time the Germans tried to invasion of Normandy—told today haul up anti-tank guns the Sher- By Joe Fleming how the engineering feat was ac- mans shot them up Stars and Stripes Staft Writer. complished and how Leonel E. Phil- "I'd likj to see the guy who NINTH TACTICAL AIR COM- lips, 30, carpenter's mate first class, designed thesp tanks tocked up MAND HQ, Oct 31.—From chair- USNR. of Clearwater, Neb., drew Inside one with his mother-m-iaw borne to airborne to KP is the the plane that finally was accepted. for just a week," saic Lt. James record of Sgt John Motylewski, of He is now serving on the staff of Rose, of Beaumont. lex., a tank Shennandoah, Pa., who is sick of British longshoremen and sailors drink a farewell glass with U.S. Navy Vice-Admiral Alan G. Kirk. USN. commander who has just returned headquarters and headquarters life men as the Americans prepare to leave for a French port on the Commander. U.S. Naval Forces in from his fro.. :ne "tin shack. and is shouting for more action. English Channel. Some of the American sailors have been stationed France. Drivers and assistant drivers were Oh DS from this post where he in English south coast towns for two years. Phillips, working with a CJ.S. Na- able to stretch out but the comman- is a weather observer, Motylewski val Construction Battalion in North- ders had to sit -md sleep bolt jumped into Holland with the 82nd A BRITISH PORT—(AP)—Oct towns now are entirely vacant of ern Ireland, was ordered to Eng- upright. Airborne Division and for 16 31.—The US. Navy, which for U.S. sailors and shipping for' the land in January to begin drawing "When wa first moved into the "happy" days lived and fought with months before D-Day jammed Eng- first time in two years. the plans for the man-made port Hundreds of Navy personnel, whose size was to equal that of position we couldnt even look out- the sky troops. Then after a fur- lish ports with men and ships, has side the turret. E-ery time a head lough in Britain he returned here freed by the reduction of amphi- Gibraltar to his desk job—and KP. been rapidly "closing up shop" and bious activity in the English Chan- "One of the primary necessities popped out snipers all arour us pulling off to other theaters. cut loose." T 4 Jame. I. Harris, a Motylewski packed his paratroop nel, were returning to the States of the lob was to find a place along With the moving of several bases driver from Hartwell, Ga., related training into one week and made for leave or reassignment, while the French coast where the 1.000- five practice jumps in two days of operations to France for the others were going direct to other ton pierheads could be regulated in Box Lunches I to qualify as an air support duration, many British coastal war zones. unison with the ebb and flow of Lt. Rose's crew ate K _ \ C member of the First Allied Airborne the tide." Phillips recalled. "The rations for their ent're stay in their Army. platforms of these pierheads nad tank until they came out of the line today. Both Ankles Bandaged Airman Takes Grim in ETO? "spuds' or 'legs' for anchorage. Once When the pay-off swoop in the they were anchored the floating "Doughboys in a pillbox 50 feet roadways from the beaches could away cooked themselves some Netherlands came, Motylewski carrying weather instruments in a Death for Ride CBI^Say No be attached and the cargoes sent French fries. They sure smelled rolling ashore." good," lamented Cpl. Wiliia-n F. 60-pound pack, wore boots a size Hobbs, gunner from Fo-t Smith. too large to cover the bandages A U.S. BOMBER BASE, Britain, Squawks about lite being rough Timed Perfectly Ark. on his ankles. He injured one Oct. 31 (AP).—When his Flying in the ETO fall on deaf ears when On D-Day. Phillips was aboard an Another tank commander, Sgt. ankle in a game of soccer before Fortress caught fire on the way ,o they reach pilots in the Far East LCI (L) accompanying the com- theater who formerly were sta- Emmet M. Bolgard, of York, Pa., D-Day and the other in a para- Cologne recently, Lt. Douglas L. ponent parts that made up the troop tumbling exercise. tioned here. said some tanks were so close to Johnson, 23-year-old pilot of He- floating harbor. Preparations for His long-awaited chance to aban- This is the opinion of Cecil the German lines that "we could lena, Ark., slipped it out of for- both the American port in the Vier- don his desk job, plotting weather Beaton, British Official Photo- ville sector and the British port in hear them talking, but couldn't see mation and took a shortcut to his grapher for the Ministry of Infor- them. Guess this is about the data on maps, came when a call the Arromanches sector called for came into this headquarters for a target alone rather than turn back. mation, also a writer, who is back nearest thing to the trench warfare As soon as the bombs were away in London after a 5,000-mile tour 150 concrete caissons, designed and they had in the last war." weather observer to take part in constructed for main breakwaters, the Dutch landing. Motylewski he told his crew. "I'm advising you of the China-Burma-India theat-r. The Germans watched the Sher- boys to bail out. I'm sticking with 60 blockships displacing nearly volunteered immediately and the In spite of the comforts and mans every minute When mem- the plane but you make your own luxuries furnished American forces 1,500.000 tons, and the manufacture next day he reported for training of 10 miles of piers and causeways. bers of one crew tried to sneak in Britain. decisions." One look at the flaming through a smoothly-operating sup- out they were hit by artillery fire right wing convinced his crew it ply setup, former ETO pilots in the "It was my iob aboard ship to Nothing about the hazardous would be suicide to remain. They keep daily phasing plans of con- and all became casualties except trade bothers Motylewski. Who as Far East would exchange that Sgt. Harold R. Price, of Elkton, Va. jumped—all but the tail gunner theater for their old fields any struction off the far shore," Phil- a civilian worked as a fire fighter, So Johnson took one desperate last lips continued. "Progress indicated Lt. Oliver Lewis, of Steubenville. miner and shipbuilder. He found day. Beaton says. Ohio, said many men spent their chance. He nosed the Fort straight The British photographer added that everything was timed perfectly both the practice jumps and the down at 300 miles an hour and with the phasing plan that had time writing letters and one GI real hop "routine." pictures of GIs and of Maj. Gen wrote 14 in one day. dived to 4,000 feet. When he level- Claire L. Chennault commander been drawn up before the opera- "There was nothing to it," he tion began. Candid Comment said of his landing. It didn't get ed off. the fire was out and he of the US 14th Air Force in China, landed at a RAF base in Belgium to his gallery of portraits of the "By D plus 5 all the blockships "It sure got plenty tiresome sit- tough, he said, until the fourth Crawling out of the plane, rid- day when German 88s and "every famous. He hitch-hiked back to had been sunk. Explosive charges ting up in that turret," grumbled dled by more than 200 flak and London by plane via New York, sent these old warships and mer- Sgt. Robert L. Blakney, tank com- plane they could find was thrown at us." bullet holes, Johnson saw his tail flying with pilots who have been chant ships to their squatting posi- mander, from Cornith Miss "My gunner still crouched at his post carrying supplies over the " hump." tions. behind feels punctured." As he bent over him, he disco- hazardous air route over the Skippers Weep T/5 Roscoe Carroll, of Wolf City, Wounded Yank Kayoes vered his only passenger on the Himalayas. "Many skippers of these ships nad Tex., made a hazardous trip to the harrowing ride was dead. tears in their eyes when they rear lines to bring up medics for 88mm. With Knee-Load watched them go down They tiad the wounded and had to dive from Silver Stars to 73 sailed them for many years." Phil- WITH FOURTH ARMORED DI- Gen. Van Fleet Heads lips said. slit trench to slit trench on the VISION, Ont 31.—When his right way back after the Germans spot- 28th Division Men "In our sector alone, a majority ted him. arm became useless by injury. Pvt. 90th Infantry Division of our allotted caissons were i.. po- Allen L. RendeL a Fourth Armored 28th DIVISION HQ., Oct. 31.— sition." Phillips went on. "Then The tankers came out today to tanker, used his good arm and a hot showers, movies and doughnuts WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY, Oct. Since July 30. when this division came the storm. Anyone who was knee to load his 75mm. gun and 31.—Brig. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, was committed to action following in it will never forget it It raged at recreation centers close to the knock out a German 88 and 20mm front line. commander of the Fourth Infantry the breakthrough in the St. Lo for three days, and when it. was gun in a recent action near Maixie. Division's Eighth Regiment, which area. 73 men have been awarded over only about 20 percent of the Pvt. Rendel, of Ann Arbor, Mich., stormed invasion beaches on D-Day, the Silver Star for gallantry in caissons remained in position. Gen. Grow Decorated loaded 40 rounds of the heavy am- has been named commander of the action, "During the gale our ship" stay- munition by placing the shells in 90th Infantry Division. He succeed" Maj. Gen. Norman D. Cota, com- ed tied to the western pierhead. For Brittany Heroism the breach and driving them home Maj. Gen. Raymond S. McLain, who mander of the "Bloody Bucket Di- But as it got worse it looked like with his right knee and leg. has been given a higher command. vision," also has decorated 316 men that pierhead was going, too, so we SIXTH ARMORED DIVISION Van Fleet's regiment received a with the Bronze Star TeJal for pulled out," HQ., Oct. n.—Maj. Gen. Robert W. WAC Captain Promoted presidential citation for its D-Day heroism. In addition, 16 enlisted Fortunately, Cherbourg was cap- Grow, whose division spearheaded Capt. Joan C. Marshall, of Bill- operations, and the general has been men who proved their ability in tured and so work on the U.S port the Brittany -?ninsula campaign, ings, Mont, commander of more decorated seven times since June 6. the Division's campaign through was discontinued. Much of the was awarded the Silver Star by than 1,200 WACs in Paris, has been Before coming to the 90th, he was France, Belgium, Luxembourg and material from it was used in com- Lt. Gen. George S. Patton for gal- promoted to major, it was an- assistant commander of the Second into Germany have received direct pleting the British "floating harbor" lantry in action nounced. Infantry Division. battlefield commissions. at Arromanches. Buddy's Eyes in Plane Above Take Blinded Flier Home EIGHTH AIRFORCE HQ, Oct 31 (UPX—Lt. Lyle In a shor' ..t tim. e h. e added■» i * :_ "We'liirrr. ill .makI etA . iti backft_ . ni:Stic _ t_ k: in nr. Wright'■ I-t.»_ ■a_««a>44><»Ms sensitivi Te i n-V>fn fighte« firl nvplan-irt e *-vcam» /■» i%e* iHnn ihot —^ —cam i e in Wright, sitting there in his Mustang, could tell that his there." So Wright stuck. fast. It kissed the surface and bounced. It settled, and number was up—he was blinded. The two Mustangs flew back toward England. Wright Wright's experienced hands gently "felt" for ground and It was Sept. 9, and the 25-year-old pilot, of 1890 Seneca piloting by directions radioed by Stockton The wounded found it. Seeing nothing but sky above him, he taxied his Street, Buffalo, N.Y., sat there thinking it over. Glass, man flew by feel, with pain-shot eyes on the plane above Mustang to the asphalt driven by flakburst, was in his face. A piece of flak was him Mechanics already were rushing to Wright's plane as in his shoulder. His eyes were hit. He couldnt see to fly. And thus they got to their base, one Mustang above the Stockton cut his own landing pattern short, jumped from He couldn't see down at all. He could barely see upward other, one pilot seeing for both. his plane and ran to Wright When he got there the and that was all. Stockton took Wright down for the landing. Wright mechanics were still trying to get Wright out, and both Down below was a piece of German Europe- Wright kept talking to Stocky, the kind of pilot who wears a white pilots saw something grim got ready to leave his plane He spoke into his radio: "I've scarf roped at his throat and has that old-time pilot's squint Flak which hit the plane had jammed the canopy tight been hit in eyes and can only see upwards. Am going to to his eyes. Wright's own straight, black, close-cropped hair It was too tight for Wright to open He couldn't have hit the silk." was a little damp, and there were trickles of blood through bailed out over Europe had he tried. The words jarred in on 2/Lt Bill Stockton, 24, of Orion, the sweat standing where his collar opened at the throat. When Wright finally was freed, the two men stood shak- 111., his buddy, flying nearby. Stockton heard them, then Stocky coached him lined him up with the runway and ing hands on the windswept English airfield. They shook radioed back to Wright: checked the position of his wheels and flaps. He told him hands until the ambulance rolled up to take Wright away. "Hold it Lyle. Don't jump." Stockton added: "Wait when to reduce power. He corrected his angle of approach The sight of one of Wright's eyes was jeopardized1 until I get into position above you, and you can fly on me." to that narrow strip of runway beneath. for a while, but his other injuries were slight. Wednesday, Nov.l, 1944 Pa-e 6 SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES

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|~|ETROlT— Members of the De- club house at Thistle Down Race Make Plans " troit Red Wings of the National Track, but didn't reach the barns Hockey League will have to play where more than 200 valuable this season- without the incentive thoroughbreds were stabled. Da-, For Trades of bonuses, Manager Jack Adams mage was estimated at $250,000.. disclosed. It'll be interesting to ST. LOUIS—It took a long time, see how the players react to the but Hank Vogt finally realized his NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Wholesale purse-string tightening. . . NEW ambition to bowl a 300-game. The bartering of baseball talent is anti- YORK. — If Manager Charley 67-year-old veteran of 30 years on cipated next month when owners Grimm is ready to give up on his the maples hit his perfect game at and managers gather for their screwball outfielder. Lou "The the Heidel Recreation. . . VAN- annual winter confabs, chiefly be- Mad Russian" COUVER, Wash.—The trouble with cause moguls believe the manpower Novikoff, he can Mrs. Erma Wyman, grade school shortage is slated to disappear unload him on grid coach, was that she tried to soon. the New York keep in too close touch with her When finding nine healthy ath- Giants. The work. She got in the way of a letes to field a team was a daily Giants defin- ball carrier just as he was tackled problem, managers and owners itely are in the and, when the pileup was un- occasionally leaned backward to market for Lou, scrambled, Mrs. Wyman was on keep everybody happy, similar to the bottom. She is now vacation- the treatment being accorded do- accord ing to Manager Mel ing—in the hospital. mestics by housewives these days. But enough veterans are trickling Ott. Young Mel- back to change the situation. vin, incidental- ly, is readying CAN ANTONIO. — Perry "Dilly" Jim Bagby is one gent who likely ^ Samuels, who ran 100 yards in will be wearing a foreign uniform to head overseas with a USO :09.7 last year, may develop into next summer. He had one falling Carl Hubbell one of the nation's finest foot- out with Cleveland Manager Lou baseball unit. He will be accompanied by Carl ballers. The San Antonio prepster, Boudreau, kissed and made up who weighs only 145 pounds, has with a promise that "I'll be good," Hubbell, former southpaw ace now supervising the Giant farm sys- scored more points than any other then kicked over the traces again. Acme Photo. tem, among others. . . BOSTON. back in Texas, totaling 97. . . . Lou Novikoff, the Cubs' problem Lt. Col. Bernie Bierman, Gopher coach during Minnesota's heyday ATLANTA.—Coach Oscar Hagberg child, is another choice morsel of —Buzz Boll, veteran forward who and recently discharged by the Marine Corps, returns to the campus has starred at right wing for the didn't enjoy the occasion because trading bait. as advisory coach. He's watching a practice session with Coach Boston Bruins the past three years, his Middies lost, 17-15, but four The Giants, who need a little George Hauser (left). players had a reunion when of everything, gladly will unload has decided to quit hockey. . . . PITTSBURGH. — Johnny Popo- Georgia Te.lii Danny Gardella, eccentric out- played Navy || fielder, to the highest bidder. vich, former St. Vincent College 'Lady in Red' Cashes Cawtlion Quits halfback recently given a medical Bobby Jenkins Vince DiMaggio long has been dis- discharge by the Army, has signed and Don Whit- satisfied with his job in Pittsburgh, 19 Straight Show Bets with the Pitt-Cards of the Na- mire of Navy while the Browns will be seeking and Phil Tin- pitchers to relieve the burden on Brooklyn Post tional Football League. SALEM, N.H., Oct. 31.—The >jk & sley and Bill oldsters like Denny Galehouse and *y "lady in red," mysterious horse BROOKLYN, Oct. 31.—Although Chalmers of Jack Kramer. CAN ANTONIO. — Jack Russeli Tech were player who has been known to club authorities two weeks ago Although antiquated veterans place $12,000 on a single race, ^ and Marty Ruby, right end and teammates on like Pepper Martin, Chuck Klein has cashed 19 consecutive show expressed complete satisfaction tackle, respectively, of the mighty the 1942 Ala- and others temporarily filled the tickets for a profit of $16,000, with Pete Cawthon's work after Randolph Field football team, will bama club. . . gap this year, the 1945 trend wil according to William Jubb, Rock- the Brooklyn Tigers of the National draw their post-war checks from SAN DIEGO.— be toward youth. Any youngster League had lost three straight the New York club of the newly- Ensign Tom with minor league training who ingham Park executive. Jubb disclosed that she tore up games, the former head coach of organized Ail-American Football Draper, of St. Oscar Hagberg shows promise of blossoming into a Texas Tech today announced his League. . . COOKEVILLE, Tenn.- Louis, walked dependable player will no doubt $4,600 worth of show ducats at Rockingham on Aug. 11, when resignation, effective immediately. Putty Overall is beginning to be- off with the San Diego Country be able to write his own ti?ket. Star Boarder, a 1-2 shot, roared Cawthon's assistants, Frank lieve he has a steady job. Putty Club Open, clubbing 217 in 54 into the stretch five lengths Bridges and Ed Kubale, will handle has been coaching Tennessee Poly- holes. A red hot 66 on the last ahead, then broke down. the team next Sunday against the technic for 22 years without miss- round lifted Draper ahead of Ralph mi s Young league-leading Philadelphia Eagles. ing a season WORCESTER, Guldahl and 18 other big-name Butler to Field Quintet The Brooklyn front office said it Mass.—Holy Cross has lost five pros. . . . OAKLAND, Cal— Ken INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 31.—After was not prepared to name a suc- players as the result of transfers Overlin, former middleweight cham- To Face Wolves a^year out of action, Butler is re- cessor to Cawthon immediately. of Navy V-12 units. The quintet pion, has given up his ring come- turning to the collegiate basketball Taking over the reins from Mike are Jack Nolan, Jack Curren, back after four straight victories. CHAMPAIGN, 111, Oct. 31.—Ray wars this winter, Prank "Pop" Hed- Getto in the Spring of 1943, Caw- Fred Angellis, Jack Crowley and "Too much like work," the 34-year- Eliot, coach of Illinois University's den, acting athletic director, an- thon guided the Tigers to two Charley Scanlan. . . . CLEVELAND old glover explained. . . AUSTIN, football team, said today that nounced today. victories in a ten-game schedule. —Fire leveled the grandstand and Texas.—Returning to the campus Claude Young, national sprint after a 19-0 victory over Arkansas, champion and Big Ten leading Dana Bible, Texas coach, was touchdown scorer, will be able to asked, "What would you do with- play against Michigan on Nov. 11. out Bobby Layne?" Bible replied Young was kicked in the head Basketball Still in Infancy—Irish immediately, "Pray," then walked and forced to retire in the first away. half of the Notre Dame game Sa- By Charles F. Kiley Still, while the game is almost turday. He scored the mini's only 53 years old, Irish believes it is in Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau. Ray Robinson Stops NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Ned Irish, its infancy. the balding former sports writer "It's healthy but still in the ado- Sgt. Lou Woods in 9th lescent stage," he says. "It's going turned athletic impresario, is up to be the greatest sport in this CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—Ray "Sugar" to his almost naked ears preparing country or any other. The game is Robinson, veteran Negro welter- for Madison Square Garden's 11th even spreading through Canada weight from New York, put Sgt. season of basketball and "the great- and South America." Lou Woods to sleep in the ninth Irish won't get involved in a dis- round their schedule ^ 10-round est year in the history of the o: cussion over whether basketball bout before 10,622 fans in Chicago sport." will be the national sport—"because Stadium. The fair-skinned Irish once again I'm prejudiced." The bout was hopelessly cne-sided will gather the nation's crack court But he can show you figures dis- as Robinson, who wn a member of teams in his famed doubleheaders. closing that 94 percent of tht the Joe Louis troupe in the States They'll come from all sections of nation's colleges have basketball before being discharged, battered the country, from the major uni- teams, against 45 percent for foot- his foe freely fro. i start to finish. versities and the backwater col- ball and even 55 percent for base- Woods is stationed at Fort Sheri- Claude "Buddy" Young leges, with the premium on skill ball. And the percentage is even dan, 111. rather than college ranking. greater in high schools. What Irish touchdown on a brilliant 74-yard Irish, sitting comfortably in a sprint in the opening quarter. doesn't point out, however, is that Billy Veeck Returns large picture-lined office as acting Ned Irish basketball is far cheaper for the Eliot declared he believed Young president of the Garden, has come MILWAUKEE, Oct. 31.—Marine had recovered from the blow suffi- schools to operate than any other Pfc Billy Veeck Jr., president of a long way from the sports scribe major sport. ciently so that he could have conti- who 12 years ago tore his only had developed to the point where a the Milwaukee . Brewers, has re- nued in the last period against the pair of pants trying to get through small gym or armory no longer Preparing now to put his annual turned to California from the Irish. But the Illini mentor said the window of a jammed college could handle the crowds. So he corner on the Eastern cage interest, South Pacific, according to Fred he couldn't take any chances with gymnasium to cover a basketball took his plan to the Garden and Irish has lined up 18 twin bills with Mendelson, Brewers' ticket ma- his Negro star. game. He decided then, accord- after a year or so of red ink on which he hopes to—and undoubtedly nager. Ankles infected with "jun- Illinois has an open date this the ledgers finally put it over with will—pack the Garden's 18,000 seats gle fungus" reportedly was the ing to the story circulated by the cause for Veeck's transfer. week. publicity-wise Irish, that the game a terrific wallop. every night. By \\ Capp Help Wanted Li'l Abner By Courtesy ot United Feature*. —AND GIVEN Write roar question or problem to Help Wanted. Tbe Start and Stripes. Paris France

APOs WANTED PL. George Banfield, Oakland, Cal., C Pfc C. Earl B. Bobbitt, Roanoke; Capt. C. P. Burtner; S/Sgt. James Cox, Bis- bee: M/Sgt. Harry O. Chine, Norfolk; Pvt. Roy Chilcote, Germantown ; Ma]. W. J. Darke, Salt Lake City; Lt. James Durett, Clam River ; Pvt. Herman E. Dozier, Norfolk; Lt. Howard Friedman, M.C.; Lt. Don C. Frost, 0577609; Lt. Wil- liam Fine, 01173605; Capt. Edward Faroe, Long Island; Theresa Glickman; Lt. Dick Uendrickson, Bronx; Pfc Eleanor Heipertz, Roselle Park; M/Sgt. James V. Hendrix, Quarzsite; Sgt. Samuel Kaiser, 13054661; S'Sgt William R. Kimmel, Pittsburgh; Maj. Martin E. Jensen, Luverne; Pfc El- wood Kern, Covington, Ky. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 7 Once Over Dancing Cheek to Cheek Old Football Story: Lightly Giant Killers Strike - By Gene Graff — Sports Editor NEW YORK, Oct. 31.— After a one-week respite, the T>OB KELLY, currently scorch- woeful "upset" was very much among those present when the ing the nation's gridirons from his halfback post in the Notre- nation's college gridders did-or-died for ol' Siwash U. last Dame backfield, wasn't always a Saturday. spectacular broken-field runner who Nobody is even trying to explain how Tulsa faltered brings the crowd out of their seats. In fact, when Kelly was a high against the unheralded—and unbeaten, by the way— Okla- school gridder in Chicago, he play- homa Aggies, but there were plenty ed a secondary role to a pint-sized of red faces among the experts 140-pounder named Henry "Babe" when Michigan tossed the blocks Baranowski. Only 14College to Purdue. And Rice, regarded as The last time we saw their Leo two-touchdown underdog, refused high school eleven in action was to co-operate with the experts antf against Penger Elevens Retain thumped the Southwest Conference in the 1940 "Kel- champion Texas Longhorns, 7-0. ly Bowl" game, Perfect Marks Nebraska Fools Ward " which pits pub- Arch Ward, Chicago Tribune lic school cham- NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—The list sports editor who crystal-gazes mid- pion against pa- west games for The Stars and of unbeaten and untied football rochial league Stripes, forgot to send his selec- victor. Kelly teams was cut to 14 collegiate clubs tions to Nebraska and the "hap- was just a good- and two service teams last week- less" Nebraskans swatted Missouri, looking 16 5- end, Tulsa and Penn being the 24-20. Ward's guess, for those who Jack Mathewson (with ball), Detroit Lion end, caught a pass from pound husky, major casualties. don't remember, was: Missouri 32, while Bara- Frankie Sinkwich. then Connie Mack Berry of the Chicago Bears Nebraska 0. caught him. As he falls, however, Mathewson flips a lateral to Half- While Army, Notre Dame, Ohio nowski took the State and Georgia Tech were re- Washington's Huskies, who took bows with his back Bill Callihan (not in picture). Bear Back Al Grygo (32) races taining their untarnished status, a thumping from Southern Cali- reckless running over to down Callihan. Game ended in 21-21 tie. Penn suffered its first loss—after fornia earlier in the week,, bounced Bob Kelly and accurate three straight victories — against back to wallop favored California, passing. Neither Navy's twice-beaten but potent Mid- 33-7. The Trojans appear to be had much chance to steal the show Army Lnseats ISotre Dame shipmen. Tulsa succumbed to un- headed for the Rose Bowl invita- that afternoon, however, because beaten and untied Oklahoma A & tion, but the Pacific Coast can't be Penger was loaded with Don Grif- M, 46-40, in the wildest scoring too proud of its caliber of compe- fin and Ray Plorek, who later star- As Nation's No. I Eleven game of the season. tition this season. red at Illinois, and Dick Barwegan, Not only was it Tulsa's first de- Among near-upsets, St. Mary's Purdue tackle and captain. But feat in five games, but the first Pre-Flight set the standard, "al- Kelly demonstrated even then that NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Army's unbeaten football squad time the Hurricane has been de- most" defeating March Field. A he might blossom into a college supplanted Notre Dame as the top team in the nation as 101 railed since Thanksgiving Day, 1941. desperation pass gave March Field star. football writers sent in their weekly ballots for the Associated By overwhelming Duke for their a 7-0 decision after the Pre-Flight- TTE was durable enough to come Press "prestige" poll. It was the first time in 14 ballots over fifth conquest in a row, the Cadets ers had dominated proceedings foi up grinning after being of West Point were almost certain more than three periods. a two-year period that the Irish were deposed. The Cadets to displace Notre Dame as the na- smothered by a host of tacklers. Yale Still Unbeaten His knees rode high when he polled 41 first-place votes to Notre tion's No. 1 football team, as judged plowed over tackle or through cen- Dame's 15. in the Associated Press poll. The amazing Yale Bulldogs con- Coach Earl Blaik"s warriors moved Undefeated teams which may tinued their unbeaten parade by ter, making him an elusive target, Baker Signs routing Rochester, 32-0, and CCNY and he gathered momentum with to the front position by crushing drop from the list next Saturday, every stride. On defense, he was a hitherto unbeaten Duke, 27-7, Sat- when they meet dangerous oppo- took a subway ride up to the Bronx sturdy line plugger and alert pass urday, while the Irish had to come With Red Sox nents, include: Notre Dame, which to take a 45-0 drubbing from NYU. defender. from behind to beat Illinois, 13-7. faces Navy; Georgia Tech, which Down in Dixie, Louisiana State If Kelly was lacking in any de- During 1943, the South Benders BOSTON, Oct. 31.—Manager Joe bumps into Duke; Mississippi State, fooled the experts by getting past partment during his prep days, it were the unanimous choice of the Cronin today confirmed recent re- which opposes Kentucky; Wake Georgia, 15-7, and North Carolina was his habit of lowering his head sports writers for first place every ports that Del Baker, who resigned Forest, which meets Clemson, and Pre-Flight, earlier conquerors of too much when he carried the ball, week. This week they were picked as coach of the Cleveland Indians Michigan State, which tackles Mis- Navy and Duke, was lucky to out- souri. making it impossible for him to for various positions by every writer in mid-Septem- last Jacksonville Naval, 14-13. change direction after he began to and wound up exactly 100 points ber, would coach Among service elevens, Randolph move. But it obviously didn't take behind Army, which also was named the Boston Red Field's collection of Ail-Americans Ed McKeever, Notre Dame mentor, on every ballot. 1 Sox next season. and formidable Bainbridge Naval The first ten teams and number Cronin disclosed continue to roll blithely along the long to eliminate the trouble. victory trail. Oddly enough, Griffin and Bill of votes: that the club TEAM Pts. The nation's unbeaten leaders, deCorrevont, both of whom reached Army , 898 has accepted re- signations from with games played, points and op- EAST college as widely heralded candi- Notre Dame 798 ponents' points: dates, failed to live up to their Ohio State 772 Coaches Bill VUIanova at Army. Randolph Field 716 B u r w e11 and G Pts. OP Cornell at Colombia. advance notices. Kelly, who didn't Georgia Tech 532 Maryville (Mo.) Tchrs.*.... 7 206 21 Notre Dame at Navy. have any, is rapidly building up an Navy 383 Frank S h e 1- Miami (Ohio) 7 146 41 Michigan at Penn. enviable collection of press clip- Io«a Pre-Flight 315 Ienback, and St. Thomas (Minn.) 7 124 25 Syracuse at Penn Stat*. N. Carolina Pre-Flight.... 174 Wake Forest 6 146 21 Dartmouth at Yale. pings. It wouldn't astonish many that Baker will Army 5 277 21 Illinois 168 MIDWEST observers if the kid from Leo high Michigan 167 be aided by Lar- Bainbridge Naval 5 165 21 makes the All-America this year. ry Woodall, who Drake S 151 22 Indiana at Ohio State. Joe Cronin worked as Bosox Georgia Tech ; 5 132 22 Nebraska at Iowa. That's how good he is now. Boston's Jim Tabor Michigan State 5 127 18 Oklahoma at Iowa State. bullpen catcher the past few years. Notre Dame 5 189 20 Great Lakes at Marquette (Sunday). Baker succeeded Mickey Cochrane Ohio State 5 168 27 Northwestern at Minnesota. Cowboys Plan Comeback Gets His 'Greetings' Oklahoma A & M ; 5 153 74 Wisconsin at Purdue. as Detroit manager in 1938, piloting Iowa Pre-Flight at Tulsa. LARAMIE, Wyo., Oct. 31—The BOSTON, Oct. 31.—The Boston Randolph Field 5 228 6 the Tigers for four seasons. Woodall Harvard* 4 88 18 SOUTH University of Wyoming will field a Red Sox tacked up their 26th ser- was a catcher for the Tigers and Mississippi State 4 159 26 baskets ..11 team this season, meet- vice star when it was learned Yale \ 4 82 20 Georgia at Alabama. # Red Sox in the "teeming '20s." * Schedule completed. Georgia Tech at Duke. ing such quintets as Michigan, that Third Baseman Jim Tabor Kentucky at Mississippi State. Kentucky, Long Island and Temple. was inducted into the Army at Fort Tennessee at Louisiana State. Joe Louis Emulates Bainbridge Naval at N. Carolina Pre* The Cowboys dropped the game Devens, Mass., last week. Bainbridge to Play Flight. after the 1942 season when they Tabor worked in a Quincy, Mass., Sailor on Vacation SOUTHWEST had the championship team in the shipyard during the past two win- In War Charity Game Arkansas at Texas A & M. r ' • Southern Methodist at Texas. west. ters. NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—S/Sgt. Texas Tech at Rice. BALTIMORE, Oct. 31. — Plans N. Texas Aggies at Randolph Field. Joe Louis, who returned from have been formulated to match un- overseas to "enjoy" a 21-day FAB WEST beaten Bainbridge Naval Training Alameda Coast Gnard at California. Handicapped Sp orts Stars furlough in the States, will begin Station' against powerful Camp San Diego Naval at USC. a two-week exhibition tour next Peary, Va., at the Baltimore Muni- UCLA at March Field. Friday night at Detroit, where he cipal Stadium, Nov. 25, to raise Set Pattern fo r War Vets first gained fame as a fighter. $1,000,000 for the Sixth War Bond Phils Sign Brothers The world heavyweight cham- drive. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.—The pion will give three-round exhibi- The two teams fought a thriller Phillies may not bother National By Bob Considine finger missing from his racquet tions against the best available INS Feature Writer. hand. There was Mordecai "Three last Sunday at Williamsburg, Va. League pennant contenders next opponents in Detroit, Baltimore The game was decided 7-0 in Bain- year, but they are going to give NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Wounded Finger" Brown, off whose stumpy New Haven, Philadelphia, Washing- pitching paw poured some of the bridge's favor when Harry Hopp, baseball writers plenty of trouble. young veterans of this war, with ton and Buffalo, with possible former Nebraska and Detroit Lions The club has come up with two finest hurling baseball ever saw. later appearances in Cleveland, smashed hopes of ever being able Glenn Cunningham, most consist- star, ran a punt back in the fourth brothers, Garvin and Granville to play a sport well enough to St. Louis and Chicago. He will be period. Hamner—and both are shortstops. ent runner of the mile we ever had, handled by Maxie Waxman and make a living, can take heart from was so badly burned around the Lou "The Honest Brakeman" Dia- legs as a child that doctors said the deeds of dozens of great stars mond. who have over- he would never walk again, much Big Ten Plans Freshman Ban come serious less run. physical disabi- Harry Greb remained a great Navy Grabs Tressell, CHICAGO, Oct. 31—Freshman lities. fighter long after he secretly had varsity stars are having their day, The case of one eye removed and a glass glim- Leading Football Scorer Pete Gray, the mer put in the cavity. Tommy NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Lee Tres- but it may soon be past, according one-armed ball Armour won the U.S. Open and sell of Baldwin-Wallace scored 18 to John Griffith, Big Ten athletic player, is both became one of the all-time pro- points against Wooster in his last commissioner, who last week advo- typical and to- fessional golfers after losing an game before leaving for the Navy cated restoring the ban on freshmen pical. But Pete eye in World War I. to lead the college football scorers is just one of a Whitey Kurowski, Cardinals'bril- in the States with a total of 80 competing on varsity teams after great number of liant third sacker, had much of the points. His nearest rivals, "Buddy" the war. bone removed from his right wrist, Young of Illinois, Keith Courcey of men and wo- „ „ Soft-spoken Griffith is pleased men athletes pete Gray yet taught himself enough con- Washington, and Billy Cromer of trol of the limp remains to be Arkansas Aggies each have 66. no end with the showings of Jug who have starred or progres- Girard of Wisconsin, Johnny Young- sed with two and a half strikes on able to fire a ball around the bases Conference Player Pts. their chances of ever reaching the with the best Of them Greg Rice, Midwestern Tressel, Baldwin-Wall. 80 wirth of Northwestern, Harry Ju- Big Ten Young, Blinois 66 gade of Indiana and Claude "Bud- top or ever playing a game well greatest two-miler we have deve- Pacific Coast Courcey, Washington 66 enough to make it worth their loped, set his records and estab- Southwest Cromer, Ark. Aggies 66 dy" Young and Paul Patterson ol while. lished his long winning streak East Davis, Army 60 Illinois. But he believes there will Southeastern McWilliams, Miss. St. 60 be no need to rush yearlings onti The greatest tennis player of all though he ran with a weird truss Rocky Mount. Strzykalsi, 2nd AF 55 time, Bill Tilden, played with a which sustained a triple hernia. Southern Brinkley, Wake Forest 54 John Griffith varsity teams when the war ends Page 8 I HL STARS AINU STKIFES Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1914 Pacific Island-Hopping, American Style The Mouth

Dressed in clothes colicuicd all over the world, Jo« E. Brow.i chucks a doughnut into his famous mouth. Ballerina

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Island-hopping has paid off. The same principle has besn applied to whola Back in Guadalcanal days many an anxious voice islands, with the result that ouch a stronghold as was raised lest island-hopping prove an unconscion- Truk, once regarded as the Japanese Pearl Harbor, ably long and bloody process. The example was Gua- has been bypassed and left impotent. dalcanal itself, with its weeks of uncertain battle, Such daring strategy and tactics could be achieved subject to the fury of Japanese airmen and naval only through preponderant air and naval strength— gunners. If this sort of thing was to continue, island the result of the miraculous regeneration of American by island, clear across the Pacific, said the anxious naval power since Pearl Harbor. ones, the war never would be over. That was more than two years ago. Since then The latest American hop to Leyte island has taken American commanders have shown they can make them more than 3,000 miles from Sydney, Australia. hops in terms of hundreds of miles instead of a few They have 2,000 miles to go to Tokyo, although the miles only, that they can drive enemy garrisons away distance via Guam is only 1,500 miles. Ballerina Vera Zorina advo-. from vital beachheads and into the profitless jungles, On this map the dates indicate first landings, or in cates the ballet exercises she takes for everybody to banish and that they can let them wither and die there with- the cases of points indicated by the explosion symbol, "that tired feeling." All we out the costly process of extermination. heavy raids. need to banish it, Vera, is—oh, well, skip it.

Nazi Leaders Who Surrendered 66,105 Supermen

They wanted Lebensraum, these Herrenvolk, but their arrogance has vanished in Allied prison enclosures, where they can reflect on what might have been. They form just a small part of the Hitler military strategists who have capitulated before the might of Allied arms. Here is a selected gallery, all sober-faced and- chastened, the "band lead- ers" who led the chorus in 1940 of the then popular Nazi song, "We Sail Against Eng- land." They've long since eaten those words. The captured leaders not in the general class are Col. Gerhard Wilck, last to capitulate with his garrison at Aachen, and Col. von Auloch, who yielded at Saint-Malo.

Torture Whip

This whip, held by Sgt. Jack Hutton, of Columbus, O., Signal Corps photographer, was one of the Gestapo torture weapons found in the German com- mander's headquarters1 in Der- veaux, Luxemburg.