New York—London Id On Parle Frangais Paris-—Rennes N'oubliez pas de m'ecrire Saturd- r, Sept. 23, 1944 TRIPES Nooblee-ay pah duh mayKREER mm Please be sure to write Vol L No. 70 Dally Newspaper of U.$. Armed Forces the European Theater of Operations Skyborne Army Rescued Ike Praises Come On Out, Bud, But Not to Play Push Lifts Truckmen Nazi Siege Of Red Ball In Holland
Twenty-five thousand British armor and American American soldier-truckers paratroops drove north in ^and auxiliaries riding the' Holland from liberated Nij- Army's famed Red Ball High-1 megen yesterday to relieve a way—400-mile supply lifeline force of airborne units which from the ports to the combat had been cut off at Arnhem, areas—were told yesterday while to the southeast, the in a congratulatory message greatest tank battle of the from Gen. Eisenhower that campaign in Western Europe they were shaping the war's destiny raged in the Moselle Valley. as greatly as any combat troops. Before the junction of the two Later, the Communications Zone forces in Holland, the position of chiefs who planned and who control the beleaguered skyborne army at the Highway revealed some of its Arnhem had been described as cri- secrets at a Paris press conference, tical, but not hopeless. To effect and a 12th Army Group staff officer the junction, elements of the said that upon it depended how British Second Army and American soon came a mass thrust into Ger- paratroops thrust eight miles north many. of Nijmegen, where earlier the com- bined force had seized a great bridge Hughes Speaks for Gen. Ike over the Rhine (the biggest of two Eisenhower's tribute to the supply branches of the lower Rhine and men was paid on his behalf early called the Waal by the Dutch). yesterday morning by Maj. Gen. E. S Hughes, who drove outside Paris Nazis Battle Fanatically to meet a line of trucks driven The rescue was effected only after by Negro troops of a truck com- one of the stiffest battles of the pany. war, according to front-line dis- In a field by the roadside, he patches which emphasized the stem decorated Cpl. Robert P. Bradley, resistance being put up by the Ger- mans, well aware that a continued Allied drive in this sector meant an No Tape in Red Ball, Framed in a window of a shell-scarred house at Illy, France, a Nazi officer surrenders to a Yank armed outflanking of the Siegfried Line with an automatic rifle. The smoke of battle still hangs over the town, liberated by American troops in from the north and a development Congressmen Learn their drive to the Belgian border. of the threat acrjss the Rhine, al- ready crossed at Nijmegen. The Red Ball Express waits After the loss of 130 tanks in five for nobody, as 10 junketing Germans Shell Own Towns days, the Germans yesterday flung congressmen discovered yester- Field Uniform against Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's day. Driving from an airfield Third Army forces virtually their hear Paris to Gen. Eisenhower's In Futile Effort to Halt Yanks Is Paris Style, last remaining armor in the Moselle headquarters, the congressmen Valley in a desperate bid to hold were delayed when they had to the approaches to the Siegfried stop, while a Red Ball convoy By G. K. Hodenfield New CO Rules Line. roared by en route to the front. In Germany itself, Lt. Gen. Court- Stars and Stripes Statl Writer. The prescribed uniform for sol- ney Hodge's First Army, moving to of Lynchburg, Va., with the Bronze ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE, Sept. 22.—M/Sgt. Jack diers in Paris was outlined last widen the gap blasted in the Reich's Star Medal for meritorious service. Harvey, of Ravenna, N.Y., was about four blocks away when night by Brig. Gen. Allen R. Kim- vaunted frontier defenses, en- None of the men was aware of what the shell from a German artillery battalion landed at an ball, whose appointment as head- countered continued fierce re- was to occur when the convoy was intersection of a tiny village about halfway through the quarters commandant of ETO and sistance in the Hurtgen forest. waved to a halt and they were Communications Zone Headquar- Meanwhile, an American broadcast asked to assemble near by. Siegfried Line defenses. Four German civilians were killed, ters was announced yesterday. (Continued on Page 4) two were injured and two homes Hughes told the surprised truck- Until further notice the proper ers that he would have liked to were completely wrecked. The total uniform for both officers and men damage to the Allied war effort was give all of them a medal. "Bradley will consist of helmet liner, OD two slightly-wounded American sol- Germans Told was chosen as a representative of Japs on Edge trousers, OD shirt, field jacket and the whole Red Ball Highway, in- diers. leggings or their equivalent. cluding the men who repair the This shell answered a big question In Philippines for Harvey. He hadn't believed that A graduate of West Point, Kim- To Revolt Now roads and bridges, put up the tele- ball began his military career as phone wires and do all the service the Germans really would shell their The Japanese proclaimed martial an Infantryman and later trans- An unidentified German radio work in the rear," be said. own cities and villages. He. knows law in the Philippines yesterday it now, and although now it's their ferred to the Quartermaster Corps. station, believed to be near the "Gen. Eisenhower realizes that Prior to his new appointment, he I French border, was heard Thursday you men seldom get the same recog- "in view of the danger of invasion own countrymen the Germans are being imminent," as Adm. Chester was ETO deputy chief quarter- i night and early yesterday appealing nition as soldiers in the front line killing, he hates the Jerry just a W. Nimitz announced carrier-based master, with headquarters in the , to the German people for revolt „and wants you to know that the part little bit more. That's saying quite planes Wednesday launched their a bit for a man who's seen action United Kingdom. against the government. "you're playing is vital. His message In his new post, the general is A '.'high officer" broadcast that is for every man engaged on this heaviest raid against the Manila in Africa, Sicily and Italy and in Harbor area. responsible for the billeting, mess- the Nazi government had ordered vast project; the troops at the front France, Belgium and Germany. Eleven Jap ships were sunk and After two years of it, Harvey Is ing and discipline of the several [ the Wehrmacht to force back ci- couldn't do without you." 26 damaged, and 205 enemy planes thousand officers and men assigned i vilians evacuating regions tnreaten- At the press conference, Maj. Gen. beginning to understand the Ger- were destroyed in the air and on to the headquarters, which was I ed by the Allied advance. He said Frank E. Ross, chief of transporta- man soldier. But he admits he can't the ground, Nimitz revealed. Tokyo make heads or tails of the German transferred to Paris as soon as ; that such an order, if carried out, tion, CZ, said Red Ball Highway- said 5* . U.S. planes participated hostilities in the capital ceased. I would cause civil war and that al- four times as long as the Burma civilians he has met thus far. They in the attack, which hit Clark Field, don't fit into any pattern. Thus far, 169 hotels have been ready he had shot and killed the (Continued on Page 4) Mitchell Field and Cavite naval "Some of them," Harvey said, taken over as billets for personnel officer who had issued such an base, as well as Manila Harbor. "smile and wave when we go by and more than 20 mess halls have order to troops in his area. A Tokyo broadcast picked up in and others just scowl at us. I can been established, many of them Borrowed Flak Suits New York last night reported that understand either emotion, but what with French staffs. Hear Gtrmans Waver 200 U.S. planes had made another I can't understand is that entire BRUSSELS, Sept. 22. — Reports Shielded Engineers attack on Manila yesterday. villages will be divided. They'll be Greek Troops 200 Yds. reaching here from Germ'any today smiling from one house and scowl- indicated that the German people Flak suits borrowed from the ing from the next. From Po Valley Gateway were increasingly in favor of capitu- Air Forces were used on D-Day 2-Way Blow by Heavies "A lot of them are scared because lation and that some quarters were to protect engineer bulldozer they've been told we will shoot them Greek troops of the Eighth Army urging unconditional surrender as operators on the beaches of Rips Targets in Reich when we capture a town, and they fought to within 200 yards of the an act of true patriotism. Normandy, Maj. Gen. C. R. aren't quite certain just what they edge of Rimini, gateway to the Po Moore, ETO chief engineer, has Strong forces of British-based should do. Others will run up to Valley, yesterday while ram slowed Danish Strike Ends Fortresses and Liberators, escorted disclosed. give us information, which most of the Fifth Army offensive after the STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22. — The The suits afforded a measure by Mustangs, attacked industrial the time is accurate. They Seem Americans had captured heights targets in the Kassel area of central' general strike in Denmark, which of protection against shrapnel dominating the Firenzula junction Germany yesterday, while more (Continued en Page 4) was called as a protest to the dis- and small-arms fire as the on the road to Bologna. solution of the Danish police force, engineers launched bulldozers than 500 heavies from Italy bombed Munich and rail yards at Larrissa, SPELLMAN IN GELMANY American troops were driving ended yesterday under orders from through the surf to the inva- Greece. KORNELIMUESTER, Germany, down the slopes of the last moun- the Danish Freedom Council. Re- sion beaches. Shells from hea- U.S. medium bombers dropped Sept. 22. — Archbishop Spellman tain barrier guarding the plains of ports reaching here indicated the vier German weapons, however, about 2,000,000 war-news leaflets celebrated his first mass in Ger- northern Italy and toward Santa Nazis were conducting widespread took a heavy toll of the giant over German resistance pockets in many since 1932 today with several Lucia, part of the Futa Pass de- searches for policemen who had ^ engineer machines. the Calais and Dunkirk areas. hundred civilians in the audience. fenses of the Gothic Line. escaped an initial roundup. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, Sept. 23, 1944
An Editorial THC( BAG Meet the Man of the Hour f*(.OW IT Lt. Lawrence J. Kaplan suggests dehydrated icicles for desert troops HERE he goes—the most —just add water! Tee, hee! a 9. £ T important guy in the Silly Fable. Cpl. John Makin Army. Who is he? Eisen- JWL4C Applications—TS claims his air base has the fastest hower? Bradley? A silver and most efficient mechanics in the I noticed in the Aug. 28 edition chicken? A second looey? of The Stars and Stripes that the A sergeant maybe? War Department had announced that more than 2,000 men will be ac- * * * cepted for officer candidate courses No. He's a replacement. in the Army'* Medical Administra- He's-a guy maybe just off tive Corps. Could you supply the information that I may make ap- the boat. A GI they trained plication for these courses, or direct for the quartermasters and me to the channels where I may overnight turned into a find such information?—Pvt. John dough. An orphan who's T. Collins. (Applications jor MAC are not be- never had a home in the ing accepted in this theater.) Army—who's taken more chicken spit from more * * * brass and stripes than any 'Forgotten Men' Joe we know. ETO. The other day a pilotless Isn't anyone coming forward with plane landed and the mechanics * * * • word for the Legion of Forgotten refueled it and sent it off again He's swallowed it. Hes Men? I refer to the EMs over 40. before anybody had a chance to stuck it out day after day— Men who had a chance to get out spot what kind of craft it was. of the Army, but for patriotic rea- ... never knowing the score for sons chose to stay in because every Fun on the Home Front. A tomorrow. He's done what man was needed. postoffice clerk receiving a card he's been told to do—with- demanding a reason for his ab- With the defeat of Germany, it out friends, without favors Is admitted that every man will no sence from work one day wrote longer be needed, but to date no back: "I was sunburned so badly —with nothing but his own provision has been made for this I couldn't wear my pants-" pride and sense of duty to small group of old men to return Names-For-the-Job Department. prop him. And finally, like to civilian life.—773 H. M. Bucha- There's a Mustang fighter pilot every doggie, he's having his nan. over here named Jack O. Flack day. * * * ... And then there was the mani- *■ * * We, the undersigned, believe con- curist who made money hand over He's on his way to join sideration in credit points be given fist. enlisted men serving overseas who ... his outfit. He's marching are 38 or over. A major we know is still a little toward Germany. A cogent factor is that service- j by an incident that took snaken * * * men 38 or more will upon release place during his first visit to Lon- from the Army to civilian life be don's famed "Cheshire Cheese." There isn't much you can confronted with a probably more Sitting on a bench he was telling say to guys like him. We'll difficult and lengthier period of' leave that to the ad writers. economic readjustment, and in ierms of potential earning power, a shorter period in which to make Instead, we'd like to throw that adjustment than younger men out a word or two to the returning home. In view of the fact that few men veterans whose ranks name and offer them a butt "He's an extra round in over 28 are currently being drafted they've come to fill. and give them everything your cljp. He's plasma in Into service, we feel that the above- 4 # * you know. Remember your blood stream. He's an stated reasons justify some appre- Take care of these new what some sergeant said ciation of the status of servicemen earlier dating on your ticket 38 or over. Added weight to this boys, Joe. Tell them your about a replacement: home.'' argument is that practically all of the undersigned have dependents or partial dependents at home, and this is the rule rather than the ex- ception among servicemen in this Wi—■—z—^ age bracket.—"Six Overseas Ser- some tall tale which had attracted vicemen." quite a few listeners. A parrot caged in the corner broke up the party just as the story reached its climax by squawking a loud parrot- 'Baldy' Speaks Up ty equivalent of "Aw, nuts!" A PTEB they had knocked out a til the enemy was 25 yards away, ed. The flier turned them over After reading the Army's plans * * * German tank destroyer in then opened up with seven shells. In a discussion on the Soldier Belgium and killed its crew, six to the FFI and headed on for for demobilization, I was very sur- The Germans never knew what Paris. prised to find that a man's age was Vote, a 2nd Lieutenant had gone American soldiers played 'possum hit them. into a lengthy talk on the subject in a U.S. Sherman, tank for an Le Paulle returned to Eng- not considered as a determining Just then a patrol of 100 Ger- land to have the Distinguished factor toward release from the and done a good job of covering all hour while 100 Germans milled mans swung into the side road. Army. points. Finally he reached that around their steel coffin without Flying Cross pinned o.i him by Having no support of any kind, the King for anti-submarine Under the induction rules today, awful point when he had to say: discovering it was occupied. the Americans sat tight, trying "Any questions?" A Joe in the operations while he was captain thousands of 1A men, 27 years of Commanded by 2/Lt. Clifford to breathe softly. The Germans of an RCAF Sunderland. age, will never serve a day in the back of the room got up and asked, Elliot, of Salt Lake City, the milled around the tank, even Army, as they are considered too "Will this be an Australian ballot?" American tank was alone on a leaned their rifles against the side, * * * old. And yet the Army has "Oh, yes," came the prompt reply side road when a self-propelled and rested for an hour. Then
FDR Readies Tank Destroys a Bl 7, One of the Men 'on the Ball' StimsonDenies Talk; Dewey Thwarts Nazi Seizure Censor Opened Tanks of the Fourth Armored Division got together with men Slaps Control of the Eighth Air Force recently VoteEnvelopes to prevent a crashed B17 from WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — As falling into the hands of the WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (AP.)— President Roosevelt began work on Germans. The Army yesterday officially de- his official opening speech of the After having three engines of nied charges that its censors had campaign, to be delivered to the his Fortress knocked out In a opened envelopes containing soldier International Teamsters Union con- raid on Mr.nnheim, 2/Lt. Joseph votes in state primaries. vention here Saturday night, Gov. W. Navarre, of Lake Charles, Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- Thomas E. Dewey last night made La., put the big ship down near son said an investigation "has not his fourth West Coast address, ap- the Moselle River, in what was disclosed to date a single ballot en- pearing in San Francisco. then disputed territory. Efforts velope being opened by an Army White House Secretary Stephen by the crew to burn the plane censor." He pointed out that on Early gave no indication of what were unavailing and Navarre Dec. 15, 1943, the War Department the President would say tomorrow. and his men set out on foot issued an order than any envelope In San Francisco, Dewey pounded toward American-held ground. clearly marked as containing bal- on the theme that the nation need- Half a mile from the plane they lot material would not be subject ed regulation without regimentation met an armored patrol which to censorship, and he said that the and claimed he had "already gone set fire to the Fort by firing on special attention of all overseas farther in this campaign toward ac- it with the 37-mm. gun of a light commanders to this order had been cepting New Deal innovations in tank. called. government than any other Re- publican Presidential candidate in BACKS P. R. POWER BILL recent years." Linkup Saves WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Presi- Dewey said he had indorsed the dent Roosevelt has recommended National Labor Relations Act, un- that the people of Puerto Rico be employment insurance, old-age pen- given an increased measure of self- sions and war-time price controls. AirborneArmy government. The President, in a (Continued from Page 1) letter to Rep. Jasper Bell (D-Mo.*, Wallace Speaks for FDR chairman of the House Insular Af- NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (AP). — from inside Germany, picked up in 1 fairs Committee, urged passage of Vice-President Henry A. Wallace New York, said that Stolberg, east legislation which would allow last night gave the nation a of Aachen, had been occupied, Puerto Rico to elect its own gov- "liberal's" blueprint of the post-war i Patton's troops, after advancing ernor. future, predicted on the re-election 12 to 13 miles southeast of Metz and 18 to 20 miles northeast of Nancy, of President Roosevelt as the man HALT OIL PACT HEARINGS "who can best provide for per- faced the greatest masses of enemy ! armor met by the Allies since WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Sen. manent peace and full employment." Maj. Gen. E. S. Hughes congratulates Cpl. Robert F. Bradley, of Addressing 20,000 people at Madi- | D-Day. In a battle which still was Tom Connally (D.-Tex.), chairman Lynchburg, Va., a Red Ball driver, after awarding him the Bronze of the Senate Foreign Relations son Square Garden, Wallace said continuing last night, the Nazis Star Medal on behalf of Gen. Eisenhower. the campaign issue was not that of launched vicious counter-thrusts in Committee, has announced that "indispensability," but rather a the Dieuze area, 25 miles west of the committee had decided to post- question of which of the two can- the Siegfried Line. pone further hearings on the re- didates could:— A Series of Clashes Ike Lauds 'Red BalV System cently-negotiated Anglo-American 1—Better co-operate with Chur- oil agreement until after the No- The large-scale action repre- vember elections. chill, Stalin and Chiang in writing sented a series of scattered tank ■a lasting, liberal, democratic peace, engagements rather than a bat- As Army's Lifeline to Front BOSTON STUDENTS STRIKE and tle on a broad front, according to 2.—Best make sure there were field dispatches. Many German BOSTON, Sept. 22.—About 3,000 jobs for everybody. tanks, dug into the flat plain, were (Continued from Page 1) munications; MPs direct traffic and Boston-schoolboys "struck" when an extra hour was added to their being used as pillboxes. Road—had hauled 150,000 tons up clear the roads of "outsiders" and Bricker Wants Hawaii Probe Elsewhere on the Moselle front, medics opeate aid stations along the school day. They complained they to Sept. 10. had to give up part-time war work. BALTIMORE, Sept. 22 (UP).— too, the enemy stiffly contested the Sixty percent of the truckers are route. The American Red Cross Gov. John W. Bricker, GOP vice- U.S. offensive. Two German coun- Negro soldiers, hauling ammunition, chipped in with eight clubmobiles presidential candidate, said he ter-attacks were repelled in the gasoline and other supplies from to ply the roads. would do everything in his power area directly south of Metz. In beaches, depots and ports to rail- Red Ball truck-trains usually re- Germans Shell to air immediately all facts about the area of Metz itself, the Ger- heads and dumps. As the front-line turn from the front loaded with cap- Pearl Harbor if the Republican mans kept patrols from crossing goes forward the length of the trip tured enemy goods. Halfway along Presidential slate were elected in the Moselle. increases. Right around the clock the eastbound route, drivers are Own Villages November. The base of the thrust to Nijme- the trucks pound two major high- changed. While the fresh men carry gen from the Dutch border, Asked what he would do if, in ways, one going east, the other west. on, the others rest, then meet their (Continued from Page 1) event of a Republican victory, mili- supreme Allied headquarters an- Born of necessity after the break- buddies on the other side of the tary staffs advised against publica- nounced, now has been widened through at St. Lo, Red Ball derived loop on the return trip. to hate the Nazis and are glad tion of Pearl Karbor details, Bricker south of Eindhoven to approxi- its name from an old railway term Brains of the system is centered we've come. But yesterday I saw Insisted the war effort would not mately 25 miles . (railmen marked priority cars with in Paris. Every midnight, supply ex- a woman break down and cry al- be imperiled by such publication. A dispatch from the U.S. Seventh a red dot) and Red Ball trucks bear perts study commanders' requisi- most hysterically when she saw a Army headquarters reported that a brilliant red disc. Only they may tions, and distribution directives are truckload of German prisoners on Most Papers Back Dewey the Americans had established a use the two routes. drawn up. By 6 AM they are on their way back to the cages. The prisoners on the truck didn't seem NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UP).— substantial bridgehead over the Transportation Corps experts su- the way to a CZ base section by air Gov. Dewey has the support of 57 Moselle ten miles southeast of Epi- pervise its operation; Quartermaster courier. The base-section com- too damn unhappy." Harvey and other men in the percent of American daily news- nal. About 15 miles southeast of Corps soldiers furnish most of the mander tells depots in the area Epinal, the Americans were fighting supplies, trucks and drivers; en- what supplies are needed. Thirty-six regiment, which is breaking com- papers, President Roosevelt is back- pletely through the Siegfried Line, ed by 20 percent, while the remain- in Remiremont, German Trans- gineers repair roads and bridges; hours after the midnight session, admit it's a tougher war here than der are neutral or undecided, Editor ocean News Agency said. Ordnance men service the vehicles; the trucks are loaded and on the All organized resistance ended the Signal Corps maintains com- way. it was in France and Belgium—but and Publisher, newspaper trade know that it's a lot tougher on the journal, disclosed tonight. yesterday afternoon in Boulogne as Gen. Heim, garrison commander, Germans, too. Some day, they and his staff surrendered. The end think, the Germans are going to Life Goes to Town, came three hours after Canadians Russians Enter Congressmen get tired of busting up their own began an assault on Le Portel, the cities in their attempts to stop 4 of Em, and Finds last remaining enemy stronghold something that can't be stopped. It's tougher here because when in the area. Fall of the Channel Estonia Capital Reach Paris you aren't sure of the way you Dallas Girls Tops port leaves three main German Driving to cut off an estimated In France to get a first-hand pic- can't ask a civilian for the right di- pockets in the Pas de Calais—Cap DALLAS, Tex. Sept. 22. — Life 200,000 Germans in the Baltics, Red ture of the war, 10 American con- rection—even if you speak German. Gris Nez, Calais and Dunkirk. Army forces yesterday fought their magazine conducted a camera poll gressmen—five Democrats and five And you never feel quite safe, be- in four large cities and decided the way into Tallinn, capital of Esto- cause there are many soldiers run- prettiest girls were found in Dallas. Chicago School Chief nia, Marshal Stalin announced in Republicans—arrived in Paris yes- ning around in civilian clothes who Photogs sent to Des Moines, Iowa, an order of the day. terday after spending two days in would just as soon shoot you as Dallas, Hollywood and Vine in Hol- Escapes Bomb Death Simultaneously, the German Normandy, where they toured bat- look at you. And it's true that the lywood and Rockefeller Center in Transocean news agency reported tlegrounds and got a close-up pic- terrific welcomes the Allies got _^ New York came to these conclu- CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—A dynamite that "the German high command ture of the huge Army supply sys- while chasing the Wehrmacht into ^* sions: bomb exploded last night in the is evacuating northern Estonia." tem in action. Hitler's back yard was pretty nice, Skirts are shortest in Des Moines; home of William H. Johnson, super- Tallinn is on the northwestern The congressmen lunched yester- and it's tough not to see all those girls in Des Moines and New York intendent of public schools, who coast of Estonia and is an impor- day with Gen. Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. flowers and bottles of wine—not to tend to go bareheaded; any clothes, has become a storm center in a tant port in the Gulf of Finland John C. H. Lee, Communications mention brunettes waiting to be including shorts, are OK in Holly- city-wide controversy over a ruling which the Germans probably had Zone commander, and other high kissed. wood; the best dressed girls and by which Johnson abolished the planned to use in their evacuation. Allied officers. But Harvey and his fellow-soldiers the prettiest are in Dallas, where school transfer system, forcing Moscow remained silent on the The ten are: Reps. R. W. Poage don't really care, because they they wear hats. thousands of pupils to change Battle for Warsaw, but Gen. Bor, (D.-Tex.), O. C. Fisher (D.-Tex.), know now that the battle is near- ing a showdown. Then we can all schools. commander of Polish resistance John Phillips (R.-Cal.), Chet Holi- Johnson escaped with a slight forces inside the city, confirmed a go home and walk in the garden Fuel-Toting Bombers field (D.-Cal.), James P. Richards and drink cold beer from the bottle cut. His wife and eight-year-old German report that Soviet troops (D.-S.O, Karl Mundt (R.-S.D.), and kiss somebody we know. Lick Belf ort Gas Crisis daughter were uninjured. had established a bridgehead on Brooks Hays (D.-Ark.), Harris Ells- the west bank of the Vistula, say- worth (R.-Ore.), Lowell Stockman ing contact had been made between NAZIS NAME ALLIED UNITS ROME, Sept. 22.—The gasoline (R.-Ore.) and Walt Horan (R- Red Cross Yule Gifts the Russians and Poles. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22 (AP).— supply problem in the Mediter- Wash.). ranean Theater, which at one time For Men at the Front The 83rd and 101st U.S. Airborne was so acute that it threatened to It Wasn't Bernard; He Divisions landed in Holland in the ground Allied fighter-bombers har- Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau. Land Seized to Train Eindhoven area and the First Brit- rassing the German retreat toward WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The Just Got a New Rating ish Airborne Division landed at Belfort in France, has been solved American Red Cross announced it Army Is Being Returned Arnhem, a dispatch from Berlin said today. by converting bombers into gasoline had 1,250,000 Christmas boxes ready FT. DEVENS, Mr :., Sept. 22. carriers. for shipment overseas to service- WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The —Gen. Montgomery went on KP FIRING SQUAD FOR HITLER? Boston bombers were used to aug- men in hospitals, at the front and duty here, and no one batted an War Department has begun divest- ment a fleet of Dakota transports at in various isolated places where re- eye. He's used to it. ing itself of 22,000,000 acres of land, WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Secre- the critical moment and within 24 gular Red Cross services were not Of course, it wasn't the same comprising a total area almost the tary of State Cordell Hull said to- 'hours 500,000 gallons of fuel, rations available. gentleman who outfoxed Rom- size of New England, which it ac- day that Adolf Hitler and other and ammunition were pouring into Each box contains cigarettes, mel. It was Pvt. General Mont- quired to house, train and equip its Axis criminals will probably face southern France from Italy. Fre- : candy, postcards, gum, waterproof gomery, a 19-year-old Negro 7,000,000-man Army. To date, the United Nations firing squads after quently the Bostons taxied right up . pouch, identification folder, metal stationed at this Army Service department has disposed of 1,000,000 the war. Hull is believed to be the first American to specify the firing ^ to the fighter-bombers, ready to i memo book, pocketbook and a book Forces training center. acres no longer required for Army take off except for fuel | of short stories. use. squad.