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Vol. No. 147 lFr. New York — PARIS — London lFr. Thursday, Dec. 21, 1944 Bluest Battle Since D-Day ReichHurls Nazis Try Comeback Trail Germans' Assault lis Best Men Into Attack On 60-Mile Front By Dan Began Star* snd Stripes- Staff Writer WITH FIRST U.S. ARMY, Is Halted in North Dec. 20.—It is apparent to observers at the front that The security veil over the German counter-offensive the war might be won if the was lifted partially yesterday to reveal the bloodiest battles Allies can smash the current since D-Day raging through eastern Belgium and Luxem- German counter-offensive— bourg where masses of men and armor were locked in one an assault designed to snatch of the war's decisive struggles. victory or at least a favorable German armor smashed more than 20 miles into peace from what the Ger- Belgium in the first 48 hours of the Nazi blitz, the like of mans felt was an Allied which has not been seen in Europe since 1940. Exploding steamroller. The Nazis are using the best Saturday on a 60-mile front from the Monschau Forest to troops they have on the Western the German-Luxembourg frontier, the offensive penetrated Front. U.S. First Army positions at four points by noon Monday. • German officers are promising One thrust in toe German counter-offensive has been halted at their men that they will spend New Monschau, but in Belgium and Luxembourg Panzer Divisions spear Nazi armored strength in the drive was estimated at Year's Eve in Paris; that they will in the areas of Malmedy. StaveloT, St. Vith and Consdorf. between five and six Panzer divisions, including an unstated have Antwerp in five days; that number of SS Panzer divisions. Eight or nine infantry Aachen will be given to Hitler for divisions were thrown .into the assault, which obviously a Christmas present, and other Headlines Grim Reminder such promises to hypo the Nazi sol- was planned to kick-off when murky weather would handi- diers into fanatical action. cap superior Allied air power. The military consensus is that To U.S. War Far from Over this offensive was planned and is Panzer divisions encountered by Lt. Gen. Courtney H. being directed by "a s o 1 d i e r"— Hodges' battling First Army men included units met and which means that apparently Von By Carl Larsen smashed at Caen. These had been re-fitted for battle. Rundstedt, and not Hitler's intui- Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau tion, is at the helm. NEW YORK, Dec., 20. — Germany's sudden shift to the offensive It was predicted the Germans probably will continue Aim for Supply Dumps in Belgium, mounting American casualties on the Western Front and to make progress. Counter-measures, it was said, cannot One present aim of the Nazi stepped-up draft requirements brought the nation a grim reminder be prepared in a day and it was warned that immediate spearhead will be to grab Amer- today that the war in Europe is far from over. results cannot be expected. ican supply dumps for the hoped- The nation's newspapers used Only in the north, in the Monschau Forest, has the for German drive through Belgium their boldest headline type to drive been reported as brought to , : : —. and Prance. BritishArmads report the German threat. Edito- a halt. There, First Army men These present German drives are rial writers checked history books smashed enemy forces which salients composed of armored entered the town of Monschau. FoeEmploying columns, tanks, trucks and armored IsUnderNimitz to draw parallels between the Americans also managed to regain infantry. The Germans are using current Nazi drive and the Ger- a portion of their old line east of the same technique we used in our PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 20 mans' final 1918 offensives under the town where there were still Tricks Aplenty recent armored spearheads across (ANS).—Conferences between Adm. Ludendorff. However, no attempt enemy elements to be mopped up. France with armored units dashing Chester W. Nimitz and the British was made to dismiss the threat Feverish German activity wis WITH THE FIRST U.S. ARMY, in several directions. „ spotted behing the U.S. Ninth and Pacific fleet commander, Adm. lightly, although Washington offi- Dec. 20. — The counter-attacking The aim of these spearheads ap- Bruce Fraser, who arrived here cials said they were confident it Third Army lines, according to Nazis were pulling every rabbit pears to be to cut off our commu- with his staff yesterday from Aus- ultimately would be checked.. front reports. nications and harass our troops. tralia, were begun today and their Meanwhile, the War Department Stars and Stripes Correspondent they had out of their helmets yes- First Army forces are holding first act was to give Adm. Nimitz announced that the ground forces Jules Grad with Ninth Army terday, using old and new ruses strongly along neighboring sectors command of Fraser's British ar- in western Europe suffered 57,775 reported that Ninth Air Force tac- in an attempt to bewilder U.S. of the drive, but the center still is mada. casualties during November, includ- tical commands Monday blasted the troops and infiltrate into American fluid. It is difficult to spot the As the naval experts conferred, ing 8,259 dead, 43,330 wounded and greastest concentration of German positions. columns exactly since they are in possibly on plans to increase Brit-' 6,18(3 missing. The Western Front military transport seen since the German vehicles were painted to (Continued on Page 2) ish co-operation in the war against toll since D-Day is 258,124. Falaise Gap. He said trucks look like those of U.S. units, and Japan, B29s, based on Saipan, The War Department also dis- camouflaged with brown and green some were even emblazoned with Zizzi Finds Zizzi, were bombing Tokyo. It was the (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) white and yellow stars similar to third superfort raid in the last those which distinguish Allied com- Seeks Other Zizzis three days on the Jap mainland. bat vehicles. In the Philippines, Yanks on B17s Bomb Nantes Again— Captured U.S. tanks and equip- Cosmo Zizzi, a sergeant in a Leyte seized a Jap airfield prac- ment were being used by the tically intact and captured Valen- FA battalion, got a Christmas Nazis. In one instance, Germans package addressed to Cosmo cia, Jap headquarters on the is- This Time With Toys, Gifts land, then drove northward in an in an American tank pulled close Zizzi. "Well," said Cosmo, "I ate to US. infantrymen and yelled contents of same." effort to engage the Japs fleeing LONDON, Dec. 20.—Some 3,000 from home. In addition, officers in English: rt into the dense mountains. children will be guests of the 384th and EM contributed £460 to pur- "Later I look at the address, "Come on over here." he continued. "It's meant for Bombardment Group, veteran Fly- chase more gifts for orphanages in Cosmo Zizzi all right, but British Report Gains ing Fortress unit of the England- Nantes. When the GIs came over, they another one." based Eighth AF, at a Christmas Lt. Oscar Picard, of Linwood, were mowed down by the Nazis. Cosmo wrote Cosmo explain- Along Faenza Front party in the war-blighted French Mass., said a party will be held for Germans in civilian clothes, or ing what had happened, and city of Nantes. 300 children in one of Nantes' few wearing civilian garments over now, he says, "all is forgiven." ROME, Dec. 20 (UP).—British Several BI7s will take off with a undamaged orphanages, and an- Wehrmacht uniforms were cap- The two Co; aio Zizzis are a troops of the Eighth Army made cargo of presents for the children. other celebration will be held in tured filtering into the U.S. lines couple of pals, happy to share limited gains today north and north- The party will be held on New the city's windowless market hall on missions of sabotage and es- the name of Zizz . east of Faenza against strong resis- Year's Eve, France's traditional day for 2,800 schoolchildren. pionage. But what they want to know tance. Polish and Indian troops of for exchanging gifts, and the pre- The 384th, commanded by Lt. Some Jerries were dressing in now is, are there any more the same army virtually cleared sents include candy, toys, toilet Col. Theodore R. Milton, of Wash- GI clothes, complete to U.S. dog- Cosmo Zizzis in the ETO? If so, all organized enemy resistance articles and clothing. ington, D.C., in carrying- out 240 tags, in an effort to work their maybe they could start a Cosmo south of the Senio River and west The gifts have come from the operations over Europe, has hit way back through the lines, using Zlsi Club. of the main Bologna-Rimini high- group's rations, from PX pur- targets at Nantes on several occa- fifth-column tactics reminiscent way. chases, and from parcels requested sions. of 1940. Thursday, Dec. 21, 1944 Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Atlantic Charter Exists Tracks Stilled, Guns Silenced CaptiveNurses, Patients Freed OnlyinNotes,FDRSays In Bold Coup WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (ANS).—A crossfire of questions By Wes Gallagher Associated Pre«» Staff Correspondent dealing chiefly with foreign affairs marked the first press SOUTH OF MONSCHAU, Bel- conference after President Roosevelt's return from Warm gium, Dec. 20.—In a town south of here German tank columns Springs, Ga., and brought surprise to a lot of people when overran an American field hos- the Chief Executive revealed there is no such thing as a pital, including nurses, personnel formal document called "The and wounded. German columns Atlantic Charter." pushed on through and a handful Avoiding controversial queries, of Nazi parachutists were left to IrkedChaplin the President said in his discus- guard the hospital. The First sion of the charter that all of the Army never expected to see the United Nations had agreed on it unit again. Shouts, Rants when its principles were embodied The paratroopers started loading in the United Nations' Declaration personnel and the nv.rses on trucks Jan. I, 1942. when Lt. Col. Charles Horner, of In Courtroom ■ Asserting neither he nor Prime Doylestown, Pa., Battalion CG«l Minister Churchill ever formally reconnaissance, dashed into Ae LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 —A vio- signed the Atlantic Charter, the town in a jeep driven by Pvt. Wil- lent Charlie Chaplin—who shouted, President said the nearest thing to liam J. Cazara, of Detroit, followed an original of the charter is by two halftracks. "That's a lie, that's net true"—faced This German armored vehicle lost a decisive battle to a Ninth AF a second day of grilling in Joan scribbled notes which were given "The colonel sized up the situa- fighter-bomber in the Metz area. The tracked unit, mounting tion and started shooting and the Berry's suit to have him decreed radio operators as a statement to four machine buns, was used in convoys to blast strafing planes. father of ner 14-month-old baby. the press. What he and Churchill parachutists ran for it," said Maj. Chaplin, acquitted last April of did when they met in August, lCil, William R. Washington. white-slave charge—that of trans- i he explained, was to scribble things Evacuated Wounded porting Miss Berry t"o New York on many pieces of paper. The U.S. Sobered Biggest Battle The hospital and all its wounded for immoral purposes—was calm result was an eight-point joint were hurriedly evacuated and the when he addressed the court then. declaration of aims later incor- Since D-Day doughboys took over the town Today, he played another role. He porated into the United Nations' By War News just in time to shoot up two jeep- twisted and turned in his seat and declaration, he said. (Continued from Page 1) loads of Germans who returned .pounded the witness-box rail as he The conference revolved around (Continued from Page 1) to the town in captured American cried, "I have committed no crime, four key subjects: closed that the Army's January and paint bore the white star identifi- cars, thinking they still held it. your honor." POLAND—He was asked which February selective service calls were cation used by the Allies. German tanks next appeared and i Joan wants the 55-year-old come- of the following headlines he pre- Germans were active behind Third doughboys and TDs slugged it out, ' dian to pay $2,500 monthly for sup- ferred on the state department's increased from 60,000 to 80,000 and Army's lines, United Press reported. with the Nazis on the receiving port of Carol Ann. Her attorney, Monday announcement regarding stressed the transfer of 80,000 air end for the first time in four days, Joseph Scott, in outlining the case Poland: The Washington Star's and service forces men to the On the Seventh Army front, Amer- The town is now firmly held. to the jury of seven women and icans thrusting against Siegfried "U.S. Backs Poland in Dispute ground forces. It is a front of wild confusion five men, said the evidence would Over Frontiers" or the Washington Line positions in the Palatinate as officers and men, trapped for show that Carol Ann was conceived Herald's "U.S. Agrees to Partition- Army spokesmen in the capital were reported meeting heavy oppo- admitted that the German counter- several days behind German lines, in Chaplin's bedroom Dec. 23, 1942. ing of Poland." Roosevelt replied sition. smash through into the First Army offensive had struck the weaftest Germans pocketed in the vicinity Highlights of the testimony: he much preferred the Star side. part of the Allied line and con- of Colmar, between the Vosges and Scott: "When did you last have sexual GREECE—A reporter told him Battles are being fought in the relations with Miss Berry?" ceded that some Allied units might the Rhine, were reported by United British Labor Minister Ernest rolling wooded mountainous front Chaplin: "I don't Know. I think lt was have been bottled up as a result. Press front dispatches to be spurred In February. 1942." Bevin had said that at Quebec They said the success of the Nazi to bolder resistance by the presence over roads in which Belgium refu- Scott: "I'm talking about sexual rela- the President initialed the British gees pedal their bicycles toward tions." thrust was due to the wide dis- of Heinrich Himmler, who told them plan for stabilizing Greece. Roose- the rear while long lines of guns Chaplin. "That's what I'm talking about, persion of Allied divisions and their hold-out would ease pressure »ut the term Is so very harsh " velt asked if that hadn't been asserted the sector was lightly held and tanks go the other direction. Scott: "Yes, it IS very harsh." denied at the State Department on the Siegfried. because the terrain in front and All along the Wec^m Front, from The ground is snow pocked and a and, told it had not, he said that slight thaw sends steamy fog rising behind the line was not considered the fogbound British-Canadian sec- perhaps something more polite was important. out of the trees, making it look said, but anyway the reporter tor to the Rhineland, German re- Greece Critics These sources declined to spe- sistance was not only stiffening in like a subdivision in Dante's shouldn't bring that up because it culate how far the German of- "Inferno." the comparatively static sectors, but Out of the fog comes the whistle was too contentious. fensive might go but said it could offensive preparations seemed to be and thunder of shells. Out of,the Quiz Churchill AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY go a lot farther without causing under way north and south of Von low-hanging clouds comes the drone —A reporter said that some of the serious damage. Rundstedt's blazing drive. LONDON Dec. 20 (UP).—Breast- President's strongest supporters in The Germans, it was said, threw of planes. The pilots don't dare ing a new flood of criticism in the Congress as well as some of his in a substantial part of their Armor Spears Drive to drop down and strafe the roads House of Commons on British srongest opponents were urging strategic reserves, including at Deepest German thrust in the because the clouds are right on actions in Greece, Prime Minister that he restate the nation's foreign least three Panzer divisions. Ardennes was speared by armor in top of the trees. Churchill admitted today that there policy. The President said he "Chances are that Von Rundstedt the vicinity of Stavelot, Belgian were disagreements among the didn't think he could comment; has made the best possible choice in town 20 miles west of the border three great powers on the handling that the policy was on the record using his strategic reserve, con- and 22 miles southeast of Ijege. Russians Converge of liberated Europe and said that and he advised the press against sidering that he has no hope of This penetration came through the the British government was doing trying to restate it. ultimate victory but is fighting Eifel Forest, a portion of the On Slovak Town its utmost to heal the breach. BIG THREE CONFERENCE— only to gain time," said MaJ. wooded plateau which extends Mr. Churchill met a barrage of "Do you welcome and do' you George Fielding Eliot. New York through eastern Belgium to the MOSCOW, Dec. 20 (AP).—Four questions during the daily Com- Cologne Plain. foresee" an early conference? a Herald Tribune analyst. Russian columns were converging mons questions period, but he made reporter asked. Roosevelt replied Other commentators saw in the Southward, other Nazi Panzers no formal statement counter - drive an effort aimed yesterday ,n Kosice, largest town that this was highly speculative, smashed across the Luxembourg in eastern Slovakia, and a bitter ATHENS, Dec. 20 (UP).—The at bolstering sagging German home and added that no definite date border near Echternach and pene- struggle that began for its ap- RAP today was dropping leaflets morale. Editorially the Times de- had been set. trated to Consdorf, five miles to proaches weeks ago seemed likely warning that civilians for their own clared that "there is no reason to the southwest. Discussing the administration's to end soon as pincer pressure safety must evacuate areas within take the German offensive lightly policies, the Chief Executive said A two-pronged thrust cut into from the east, southeast, south and 600 meters of the ELAS gun em- and there is every reason to throw that he is going right along edging Belgium between the Luxembourg southwest put Red Army artillery placements in Athens because these to the left just as he said he had into battle all the combined re- border and Stavelot. Panzers in within easy range of the railway Kill soon be heavily attacked. been doing for more than 11 years. sources of all the Allies." this area attacked toward the town hub. of St. Vith, seven miles inside the Belgian border. Steady progress maintained by Governor May Revievz Second Massacre co-ordinated infantry thrusts threat- Germany Hurling Nazis threw a pincers around ened to cut off the German gar- LSU Sex Book Ouster American troops in this sector. One risons. Hungarian troops were re- Its Best Into Battle Of Yanks Reported claw drove up from the southeast ported continually deserting under BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 20.— and reached Maspelt, four miles the impact of the Soviet drive. The stormy case of Jeanne Heller, WITH FIRST U.S. ARMY, Dec. southeast of St. Vith. The second the LSU coed who wrote and dis- (Continued from Page 1) claw drove in from the east. In- 20 (Reuter).—A second ruthless slay- tributed a leaflet on "free love," small units and when stopped to fantry and tanks reached a point S&S Shopping Service seemed headed today for review by one direction they leave a small ing of helpless prisoners by the three kilometers east of St. Vith Gov. James H. Da via holding force and take off in Nazis was reported today by an Malmedy Claimed Taken For GIs Discontinued another, using secondary roads. Several hundred students, demand- American soldier who feigned death The fourth drive penetrated to As American rear echelon units The Stars and Stripes Shop- tog reinstatement of Miss Heller, to escape. the vicinity of Butgenbach, Bel- inarched on the governor's mansion withdraw from Belgian towns and ping Service, organized to aid as U. S. reserves rush forward, it Held only a few miles from the gian town eight miles northeast by last night after suggestions were scene of the first it copied in east of Malmedy. combat troops in purchasing and made at a student mass meeting is strange to observe the people. mailing Christmas gifts, has They gather in groups and gossip, every detail its horror. Each time A total of 2,200 German prisoners to "appeal to a higher authority." were taken yesterday, he reported. now been discontinued. and no longer do they cheer and a Nazi officer ordered that pri- LSU's president, W. B. Hatcher, has The German high command's The service filled hundreds of refused to reinstate her. smile after Joes passing through, soners be taken to an open field. communique, as reported by United requests for perfume and other for the civilian faces show the fear There, tank machine guns poured Although shouts of. "strike" and Press, said more than 10,000 Amer- presents during its existence. "We want Heller" were heard at of a returning and angry conqueror. lead up and down their lines until Statements covering trans- ican troops had been captured, 200 the mass meeting, no definite ac- Many of them who actively aided all were lying on the ground. actions are being mailed each tion was taken. Student leaders and sheltered American troops can Other Germans went through the tanks captured or. destroyed and subscriber. Further inquiries 124 planes shot down up to the opposed a strike "in view of adverse now be seen heading westward with bloody, screaming mass of Ameri- may be addressed to the service publicity already given our univer- can soldiers with guns to make fourth day of the counter-offen- their meager belongings on their sive. at APO 887, U.S. Army. sity." backs or in carts. sure the men were dead. Thursday, Dec. 21, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5 From Navy Blue to Fairway ^reen\Arm\ Chosen Once Over Wings Second n 11 i■nil iiw ill mi«■ illinium.ii' , - £ V7 Team 01 Year lightly In Ice Circuit On AP Ballots —— By Andy Rooney As Bruins Bow TWEW YORK, Dec. 20.—This is the BOSTON, Dec. 20.—The Detroit NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Army's time of the year all ■ports- Redwings scored four goals in the undefeated, untied football team, writers should curl' up and maybe final period to defeat the Boston acclaimed as national champion by not die, but at least hibernate and Bruins, 8-3, and snag second place everybody except followers of Ran- turn the space they've been using In the National Hockey League dolph Field's Ramblers, was selected oyer to a good comic strip. Foot- here last night. the "team of the year" in the an- ball is over, except for bowl games, Trailing, 3-2, going into the last nual Associated Press poll. The and the basketball players are tak- frame, Steve Wochy tied the score Cadets broke the 12-year hold on ing midyear exams, so few games on a pass from Joe Carveth. Flash first place by major league baseball are scheduled. And Gunder Haegg Holley provided the margin of clubs polling 209 points, twice as doesn't start running in the States victory just before the midway many as the nearest competitor, until Jan. 21. mark and Eddie Bruneteau added the world baseball champion St. Here's the latest sports dope, a pair of unassisted goals with less Louis Cardinals. though it can't be regarded as hot than a minute remaining in the Sparked by Glenn Davis, the news: game. nation's top scorer, and Felix Blan- Vf/"EST POINT officials gave a Boston went out in front in the chard, bone-crushing fullback, Army " wristwatch to every coach and first period on Herb Cain's goal, rolled over North Carolina, Brown, player on the Army football team... but Don Grossin tied it and Bill Pittsburgh, Coast Guard Academy, Bob Hope paired with Olin Dutra Quackenbush put Detroit ahead a Duke, Villanova, Notre Dame, Penn to beat Bing Crosby and Willie few minutes later. Goals by Kenny and Navy for its first perfect season Hunter, 4 and 3, on the Long Smith and Pat Egan gave the since 1916. Beach, Calif., golf course yester- Bruins their temporary lead in The Academy rolled up an astound- day... The Mike Delia-CIeo Shans the second period. ing total of 504 points in nine bout was stopped in the seventh games. round and declared "no contest" in Hockey Standings The 59 and 62 points Army scored Hollywood night before last because on Notre-Dame and Penn on succes- National League sive weekends were the worst shel- they weren't fighting. W I. T Pts Montreal 13 * 2 28 lackings those two schools ever got. REEN BAY Packers each got Detroit 10 * 3 23 The Cards netted 104 points, Ran- " slightly more than $1,300 as Toronto 10 « 2 22 dolph Field 28, Ohio State 23, St. Boston 8 11 1 17 their share of the championship Chicago S 10 2 8 Louis Browns 21, Montreal Cana- money... Gene Rogers, Columbia New York * 10 * * Winner of the Portland and Richmond Open golf tournaments, diens 6, Utah U. basketball team 5, student, won the American League Slammin' Sammy Snead, of Hot Springs, Va., shows that victory and Green Bay Packers 4. Metropolitan Buffalo 2, St. Louis 2. ' smile. He's pocketed $4,300 in war bonds since leaving the Navy a A AU 100-yard EASTERN DIVISION month ago. Snead spent 26 months in Uncle Samuel's service. freestyle swim ti- W L T Pts tle in 53.8 se- Buffalo U S 8 31 Name 96 Nags Hershey 11 10 3 25 conds and the Providence 7 15 2 16 150-yard back- WESTERN DIVISION Bingham Rebukes Colleges For Santa 'Cap stroke in 1:40.6 Indianapolis 13 7 0 32 minutes... Glenn Pittsburgh 12 12 2 26 Cleveland 11 1 3 25 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.—Ninety- Davis and Dean St. Louis 5 14 3 13 Sensenbaugher of Which Changed Grid Rules j six horses have been named for the Army are on the $100,000 added Santa Anita Han- scholastic danger BlakeOustsCowley dicap, world's richest race, which list... Red Grange Glenn Datis BOSTON, Dec. 20.—Col. William J. Bingham, Harvard will be run at Santa Anita, March got the highest salary ever paid to In Puck Point Race athletic director on military leave, and chairman of the Na- 3rtl. Among those nominated are a pro footballer, one hundred grand tional Collegiate Athletic Association football rules com- 58 stake race winners from every for signing before he got out of major track in the country. MONTREAL, Dec. 20. — Hectoi mittee, broke his two-year silence last night and replied to Happy Issue, winner of the $75,- college. Remember "Cash and "Toe" Blake, Montreal leftwinger, Carry" Pyle? critics who have been hurling 000 Gold Cup Saturday; First Fidd- replaced Bill Cowley, Boston center, verbal brickbats at his head without le, one of the best handicap horses John Strzykalski of the Second as the National Hockey League's opposition ever since he entered Irish Cagers Win, of the year; Whirlabout, second AAF Superbombers played once leading scorer this week by adding the Army. ranking filly of the year; Georgie before in the Polo Grounds. That seven points to his total, while Cow- Bingham's steadfast refusal to 9144; Lose Hassett Drum, upset winner of the $50,000 was in '42 when he ran 93 yards ley made only two. Elmer Lach of alter the football rules, in order to Stars and Stripes at Chicago; for a Marquette touchdown against the Canadiens also went on a scor- loosen up college football, has SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 20.— Bounding Home, victor over Pen- Manhattan... Branch Rickey, presi- ing spree, scoring six points to take resulted in rebellion by a number sive, and Paper Boy, winner of the dent of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Notre Dame's flashy cage outfit third place. of eastern colleges who defied the crushed Loras College of Dubuque, Narragansett Special, Saratoga wouldn't let the Brooklyn Tigers of Player Team G A Pts NCAA and changed the rules any- Handicap and American Handicap. the National Football League ac- Blake, Canadiens 15 IS 33 91-44, here last night but it was a Cowley, Bruins 11 21 32 way. cept liquor ads in their programs. costly victory. Guard Billy Has- Lach, Canadiens 5 21 26 Cites Pros' Advantages Richard, Canadiens.... 1» 6 25 sett, brother of Buddy Hassett, Phil Terranova TKOs C. Smith, Blackhawks. « 1« 22 Bingham blamed the agitation former New York Yankees' first- 'Ox' DaGrosa Appointed Howe, Redwings • 1* 2* for rules changes on the fact that baseman, strained the ligaments Francis in Brooklyn Holy Cross Grid Coach many college coaches* are afraid in his left leg early in the game Gl Challenger of professional competition. He and will be lost indefinitely. BROOKLYN, N.Y., Dec. 20. — Phil Terranova, former NBA feath- WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 20. — pointed out that pro players are physically better able to withstand Reinstate Ump Bumper erweight champion, TKOd Leo John "Ox" Da Grosa, former Col- injuries which result from wide BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.—President Francis of Panama in the second gate grid stan and a lawyer who open football, while college players Arthur Ehlers, of the Interstate round of their scheduled ten-round- wrote a tome on the five-man line ranging in age from 17 to 21 are League, announced today that er at the Broadway Arena here in football, today was appointed Fred Dorman, Wilmington man- last night. Terranova floored head football coach at Holy Cross. likely to suffer. "When the college game was ager suspended for striking an Francis for a five count in the Da Grosa succeeds Anthony "Ank" umpire last year, had been rein- second. Francis'arose, but Referee Scanlan, who resigned last night. wide open, as it was in 1931, there were 33 deaths due to injuries in a stated. Al Berle stopped the fight. single season," Bingham told Bos- ton sportswriters. "But from 1940 Question Box through 1944, while the rules now Refereed Aleutian Bouts under fire were in effect, there was exactly one death in intercollegiate 14 col. C. McK. Kemp.—You're right. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. — Arthur Tennessee's bowl record »l«o Includes a football," he said. Donovan, noted boxing referee and 14-7 victory over Tulsa in the Sugar Bowl Bingham criticized the rule which instructor at the New York Athle- at New Orleans, 1943. allows a defensive player to run Capt. W. A. BoatwrUjht, We Roy Terry tic Club,-has returned to this city and Pfc M. C. Cauley.—Still on K-ration with a fumble as "a damn cheap after refereeing the Aleutian box- end water diet for printing that Sammy way to get a touchdown." ing championships last month on Snead is a native West Virginian. Snead's i parents live at Hot Springs, Va., where Adak Island, and the Alaskan he learned his golf and was reared. For department title events earlier in years he represented the White Sulphur CAGE -RESULTS November. Springs (W.Va.) club. Sam Jr. la being groomed for a golf career, too. He's six Bates 64, Sanford 36. Soldiers and sailors from the months old.—(See picture above.—Ed.) Capital 61, Muskingum 82. Aleutians won all the titles in the Colgate 64, Hobart 41. T/4 Herschel A. Cooper.—Primo Camera DePauw 49, Purdue 48. Alaskan championships and Do- won heavyweight title by stopping Jack Camp Shelton SO. Camp Perry 41. novan was impressed by T/4 Willie Sharkey iri six rounds at Long Island S/Sgt. Bob Cummings Kansas 47, Rockhurst 28. Brown, San Francisco Negro, who City. 1933 Victorious in three main Iowa 60, Denver 41. Pvt Anthony Krinicich.—Michigan beat events, this Air Corps provost LaSalle 65, Scranton 46. took the heavyweight title; Pfc Dale Notre' Dame, 32-20. in 1942, in the only sergeant bas challenged Stan Moorehead Tchrs. 36, Maryvllle U. Maloney, Seattle middleweight, and game played between them in the last Karolyi, reigning French wrest- North Carolina 51, Morris Field 29. Pvt. George Holly, Toledo welter- five years. North Dakota St. 45, North Dakota 43. Beaucoop GIs.—Alabama played five ling champion since 1937, and Oklahoma 44, Phillips 42. weight. No professionals were al- Rose Bowl games; '28, Washington, woo. the bout—pending approval by Olathe Naval 43, Park College 34. lowed to compete in the tournament. 20-19; '27, Stanford, 7-7; '31, Washington the Army—will be held in Paris Notre Dame 91, Loras 44. More than 9,000 servicemen saw State, won, 24-0; '35, Stanford, won, 29-1S; St. John's 53, West Point FA 4*. the, finals at Fort Richardson '38. California, lost, 13-0. the first week in January. Marshall 57, Brooklyn CoUege 41. St. Phillips 44, DePaul 17. Cpl E. J. Helkowskl.—West Texas 8tate The Milwaukee grappler . bas Alaska. Tournament winners receiv- Southern Methodist 54, Dallas Naval 49. 18, New Mexico U; Southwestern », had eight years of professional Virginia 55, Richmond Air Base 4*. ed furloughs, with expenses paid South Texas Aggies 0. Ho North Texas mat experience. Westminster 71, Arkansas 61- Arthur Donovan at Mt. McKinley Park, Alaska. Aggies listed on Southwestern record. Page 6 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 21,1944 An Editorial Never Too Late to Learn

Single-Term Ticket apprehension, current not only on the Stock Exchange, but one of With all the ever-present com- considerable concern to all engaged ment on what to do with the ser- in commerce and industry, is the viceman and his quest for a job reconversion of our economy from after demobilization, we, the under- a war to a peace basis. Not only signed, are firmly convinced that are our leading industrialists great- we have the successful answer to ly taken up with this problem, the problems. but our national and local govern- Some 11,000,000 service men will ment officials and the heads of be released from the service and our unions are considerably con- Issued a bonus check of $18,000 per cerned with this, as primarily a month for the remainder of their problem of employing our labor— lives—contingent upon their spend- our working people, including ing the $10,000 each month. These those millions who will return to men will not be allowed to work normal work-a-day lives when this under the penalty of losing their is over. monthly bonus. I hope that no soldier will son- The expenditure of this sum Dy strue the article as an endeavor each man will keep at least six to profit by the temporary current men engaged in work thus making successes of the enemy at a cor- a total of 66,000,000 jobs. As only respondonding cost in American sixty millions jobs are required to blood. It is rather to be hoped prevent unemployment in the U.S., that they will view it merely as this will create a shortage of labor, the expression of a normal eco- and this in turn will create over- nomic phenomenon, such as when time, higher salaries and an eternal my pal, during the present ciga- prosperity, so that salaries will rette shortage (as doubtless many reach approximately $1,000 per of yours) paid 100 francs last week month. for a pack of butts in Paris.— As even this fabulously hign Maj. J. Godley. FD. average income will still run the hrough the smoke and censorship that Their swastika-sworn unity. The frenzied country so far into debt that it * iWill be impossible to pay for it, the T dims our view of the Rundstedt push, rush to the colors of old gaffers and wet- ticket of Randall and Peck will not How to Upset EMs certain things stand out more vividly than eared kids. The ghastly goosestep of the run for a second term.—Sgt. In our present area our section ever. Volkssturm into the casements—the release William Randall and T/5 Victor (survey) has had very little to do. The elasticity of Que German military of the panzers into battle. The cheers and Peck, Inf. We used our time to clean and care * * * for personal equipment, but natur- machine. 'The depth of its resources. prayers of the Deutsches Volk—the women, ally this did not take the full day. The enormous energies stored up in ten the boys, the girls. The total Nazi-Ger- Let's Take Stock We used the rest of the time to years of secret preparation. The last-ditch man, German-Nazi state. Regard in an article in Wednes- write to loved ones at home; friends day's paper entitled: "Nazi Coun- and relatives in the service. At the deadliness of an army recruited from a * * * ter-offensive Booms Stock time, our BC was the only officer nation 80 million strong, for centuries The folly of those who discounted the Market." in the battery area. As he had dedicated to all-out compulsory military German purpose and power. Who believed As an old foot-slogger of the last to censor the mail by himself, he training. "Guerre," it appears to me this was quite disgusted when our 10 the V signs, the smiles, the free beer and heading is unfortunate and the to 15 letters (there are seven of gemutlichkeit of the German burgers. wording of the article will create us) came in each day. Th« scientific knavery—the knavish Who—even while Rundstedt readied his an undesirable reaction in the science—the bewitched brilliance on which minds of the men on the line. We were told that we were hav- reinforcements and poised his pencil over The reaction, I fear, is the im- ing too much time to write letters, the vaunted German culture rests. The the place where the blow would fall—had pression to be deduced from the so details immediately followed. infinite capacity to create the gadgets and their guards down, their hands out- article that the stock-market Now our section chief has been gimcracks of war—the rockets and robots, operators eagerly seize any chance told to keep us busy all day. stretched, their peace plans ready. Who to enrich themselves—inferentially I doubt if either Gen. Eisenhower the planes and panzers, the 88s and 34s. were prepared to prove why Germany must a German success having the effect or the people at home will be- The industry of the German—in building be revived, restored and returned—with- of prolonging the war, conse- grudge me the time it takes to the bloodiest arsenals known to man. out delay or dishonor—to the society of quently enhancing the opportu- write letters to the ones I love.— The fanaticism of the German people. nities of the "war babies'" for CpL Arthur Fenney, FA decent peoples. better and bigger profits—at what- ever cost in blood and money to the nation and- its fighting men. Up Front With Mauldin SOMEWHERE"! The fact is that the stock market, as any commodity, responds to well-established laws and impulses, whether in war or in peace. One EUROP/T recalls the halcyon boom days of the stock market before "Black Life-Saving Gifts Wis., razed first the house and then Friday" in 1929, when every steno- A pocket Bible his mother gave the barn. They didnt have any grapher and factory-hand was him when he entered the Army results, so they trained machine dupping into the golden stream. and a wallet his wife presented to guns on the chicken coop and Then there was no war, merely an him Just before he left the states bagged a group of paratroopers and exuberance flowing from favorable probably saved the life of Pvt. a couple of hens. trade balances, a superabundance Richard K. Anderson, of Chinook, * * * of good things, highest sales re- Mont., and the 10th Armored Div. Corporal of the Guard! ports, accompanied by visions of Anderson was carrying the gifts two chickens in every pot; of two "Halt, who's there?" the in his shirt pocket when an 88 guard shouted. cars in every garage. shell exploded nearby. A fragment Swell going, until the crash. penetrated the wallet but was The challenge Startled CpJ. The result was an upset of world- stopped by the Bible. James L. Mitchell, of Hollit, N.Y., and Second Armored DiVi wide economy from which we have * * * never fully recovered. Volumes ' "Where?" he asked. could be written on its effects in Honor Gen. Collins • He had to hit the dirt when producing the conflict in which Maj. Gen. Lawton Collins, \ the guard opened up with a we are now engaged. commander of troops which \ tommy gun. My point is to make clear that liberated Cherbourg, has been * * * the stock market, as any com- named an honorary citizen of modity, is very sensitive in its res- that city, M. Bene Schrnitt, i Grable Fan Club ponse to cause and effect, supply president of the Municipal De- Medics in a 79th Div outfit art and demand, whether in peace or legation, has annourjcei Gen. I staunch Betty Grable fans. They in war. Lawton Is commander of the ' had to hit the dirt four times when One of the natural causes for Vn Corps. ;' shelled during a Grable flicker, but ; they- stuck it out until the last * * THE STARS AND STRIPES i reel. Nobody But Us Chickens Printed at the New York Herald ri * A 1 Folks at Borne Send Tribune plant. 21 rue de Berrt, Paris Some German paratroopers tried T,,E NEW lot the U.S. armed forces under aus- nirtns, » GI» S»»** * pices of the Information and Educa- a version ©I 'There ain't nobody tion Division, Special and Informa- here but us chickens," but it didn't tion Services. ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYsees T. William M. Hardurch, Memphis—'■ 40-58, 41-49. work with three Third Armored L boy, Dec. 5; Lt. Lee M. Halstead— Div. soldiers. Suspecting that the Lee Michael, Nov. 22; Lt. Harold Isaacs, Contents passed Dy the 03. Army Germans were using a farm for an Brooklyn—Michael Steven, Dec. 3: T/4 and Navy censors. Entered as second Leland Johnson, Palo Alto, Calif.— class matter. Mar. 15, 1943, at the boy. assembly point, S/Sgt. John W. Bell, Dec. 2; Sgt. Eddie Johnson, Roosevelt, Post office, New York, N.Y, under the set of Mar. 3, 1878. of Chandjterville, HI., Sgt. Sander N.Y.—girl, Dec. 5; S/Sgt. Maririo John- ston, Samaria, Mich.—girl, Nov. 23; Pvt. Vol. 1. N». 1«T B. Haroldson, of Kennan, Wis., and "Sorry. Now we're outta charcoal. James P. Long, Birmingham, Ala.—James I Pvt. Roy Q. Minshall, of Saukvihe, Thomas, Nov. 12. Thursday, Dec. 21, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3 YanksCool Off Nisei Against the Nazi on 7th Army Front Nazi Reprisals Hot 'Welcome' mm * In Own Towns Left by Enemy Not Expected

By Joe Weston Col. Terrill E. Price, a Civil Affair* Stars and Stripes StafI Writer officer of the 12th Army Group, Towns and villages evacuated by said yesterday he expected no re- the Germans in the face of the prisals against civil officials in Ger- Third Army offensive have been man towns reoccupied by the enemy found to be thoroughly time- since the winter offensive began, the Associated Press reported. bombed and booby-trapped the He said certain personnel, inchld. closer the Americans get to Adolf's ing doctors and law enforcement Tiebensraum." officers, had remained in occupied Set to pop from ten minutes to communities to meet urgent needs of the civilian population. He did 31 days after planting, the delayed- not think the Germans would reaction fuses are mostly being found gard them as traitors for having In latrines, bams, haypiles, cul- continued to function under the verts, back-sheds, cellars and inter- Allied military administration. sections. Wine cellars are favorite This view was qualified by T/Sgt. spots. Arthur Altree, of Chicago, working The time-bombs have averaged with Col. Price, who said most of about four to a town thus far. the towns occupied by the Allies in However, six were found in Mor- the earlier battles had been evacu- hange and four in one week at ated of civilians by the German* St. Avoid. themselves, except for a minor per- centage who hid in cellars and r«* Building Check Urged fused to leave. Best method of finding the Denies Coddling bombs is a complete spot check of American doughboys of Jap- all buildings to be inhabited by anese descent are shown above He could not say what would be personnel, and immediate notifica- moving out of an old CP to the attitude of the Germans toward tion of the nearest bomb disposal advance to new positions on a those who had refused to obey the or engineer unit if any suspicious snow-covered section of the evacuation order and fall back with spots are located, according to Western Front. At right, a the retreating German armies. Capt. P. J. Hodges, of St. Paul, of Nisei turns his machine-gun He denied that civilians in Allied- the fifth BD Squad, 82nd Ord. Gp. against Nazi positions. occupied towns in Germany received "Don't fool around with sus- better food and treatment than ci- picious spots if you are inexpe- vilians in neighboring Allied coun- rienced," said Capt. Hodges, "as Dahlquist Pays Tribute tries, and said that in at least one the Nazis have booby-trapped the instance surplus food in Germaa time-bombs as well as everything To 'Finest Soldiers' areas had been transferred to Hol- else." land and given to the Dutch people. Bomb disposal units, self-contain- In Combat Team In answer to a question regarding ed organizations of six EM and the effect produced by the refusal one officer, are mobile and usually WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY, of Americans to fraternize with within quick reach of any area. Dec. 20.—Tribute was paid to the German civilians, Price replied, "I Capt. Hodges also pointed out fighting qualities of the Nisei of- believe that the Americans are steel* that many men are still going ficers and men of the 442nd Com- ing German hearts, for we refuse souvenir hunting and warned that bat team by Maj. Gen. John E. to smile or wave back even when booby-traps are becoming thicker Dahlquist, commander of the 36th we are greeted by children. Pei> as we advance into Germany. Div., at a citation ceremony in the haps it is a mistake." vicinity of Lepanges in northeast- "The best souvenirs a GI can ern France. take home are ten fingers and two After decorating 29 Americans of legs," he said. Japanese descent and paying his 5,000 Tire Slogans Received; AllHandsFarni respects to eight who received awards posthumously, Gen. Dahl- Nazis Bait Ozarks quist said. "We have only the ut- Contest Has 2 Days to Go Carrying Party most admiration for you and what With PA Broadside you have accomplished. No finer WITH EIGHTH INF. DIV, fighting, no finer soldierly qualities More than 5,000 entries, from tion" in the response to the con- GERMANY—For eight days the WITH NINTH ARMY, GER- have ever been witnessed by the front-line doughfeet as well as ser- test, both in quantity of entries and officers and men of headquarters MANY, Dec. » — The Germans, U.S. Army in its long history.". vice troops, had poured into The in the GIs' "sincere apprTfeciation of company carried in supplies on Who at various times have used The general credited the regi- Stars and Stripes mailroom last the gravity of the shortage." their backs under "fire and carried .public address systems to fire pro- ment, which had already won fame Advanced Supply headquarters in out the wounded to keep the First paganda at opposing Allied troops, in eastern France by making con- night, with two days left before the Belgium announced last night that Bn. of the 28th Inf Reg in trie are doing the same again. U. S. tact with the "Lost Battalion," with closing deadline of the tire conser- its own contest, open only to ADSEC position they had been ordered to troops fighting in the Linnich area gaining all its objectives through vation slogan contest. personnel, would award free trips hold. *oday heard this broadcast: some of the most difficult terrain Entries ranged from three or four to Paris for GIs who submitted the Although torn by constant coun- in the world. best two-line-or-more jingles on tire ter-attacks, the companies clung "We know you are about to words scrawled on muddy, torn launch a great offensive because conservation. The ADSEC contest to that key salient in the gloomy you are bombing our homes. We No Time Wasted paper to elaborate posters, wind- will end Dec. 31. Hurtgen Forest. Supply and will retaliate. You must admit Before an engineer regiment had shield stickers and cartoons. Some evacuation were the sorest prob- that the war has not turned out finished construction of a new entrants even romanticized the tire Improvement on Fortress lems. The one approach lay across to be such a breeze. Winter has dock at a French port, a heavily shortage with rhymed couplets. HQ. AIR SERVICE COMMAND an open draw which was blasted not set in but trench foot has. loaded freighter was discharging The judges, Maj. Gen. H. B, Say- IN FRANCE, Dec. 20.—Flying Fort- night and day by enemy fire Only We are ready for the troops who Army equipment on the completed men on foot could bridge that ler, Ordnance Chief; Maj. Gen. resses, thanks to Air Service Com- draw. are men of the Ozarks." portion. S/Sgt. Walter C. Fields, Frank S. Ross, Chief of Transporta- mand technicians, now have elec- The speech was followed by ren- of Central Valley, Calif., and Pfc tion, and Brig. Gen. James H. Strat- tric turbo-supercharger regulators Every possible man in the CP dition of the song, "Melancholy John M. Nelson, of Tacoma, who was organized into a carrying ton, ETO G4, emphasized, however, which automatically control fuel party. Baby." Use of the word Ozarks put German power-operated shovels that only slogans consisting of ten pressure. Heretofore, Fort pilots was a reference to the 102nd Inf. into operation, were commended by words or less were valid. Rations and water, ammunition had to control the pressure on each and equipment were transported Div. which took part in the fight- the regiment CO. They expressed "great satisfac- of their four engines manually. ing for Linnich. on vehicles to the rear CP. There the carrying party took over. The porters stumbled through the 5-1 Odds Not Too Much darkness to the edge of the draw. Yanks Cycle Way to Freedom They slid down a long, almost- For This 634th TD Joe vertical bank, crossed the shell-lit hell, and climbed up the other side. WITH THE FIRST INF. DIV.— j NEAR ST. NAZAIRE, Dec. 20.— I night in a cafe's second story, while past German troops for seven days, Coming back, they bore the litters The enemy had the drop on him j Two veteran Ninth AF pilots, es- ■ German soldiers were holding a hiding at night in the swamps. of the wounded. and the odds were five-to-one, but j caping from a Nazi prison in re- drunken party on the ground floor. By the lime they reached Allied Everything the battalion received Cpi. Edly M. Harris, of Soddy, ' gular GI flight uniforms, pedaled Slip Out of Prison soil, on Nov. 27, the news had during those hectic days was car- Tenn., foiled a Nazi attempt to | to safety past a steady stream of already reached the FFI of their ried in by these parties, and every capt .re'an M10 tank destroyer. Shortly after their capture, the arrival, and upon reaching the wounded man was evacuated. German patrols on their escape two slipped out the prison in St. French headquarters ttiey were Harris was on night guard In the route, it was revealed today. 634th TD area when he felt some- Nazaire unnoticed and sneaked taken to an American infantry unit 81st Chemical Bn. Cited tiling shoved against his back. At ! The fliers, 1/Lt. Leonard Keller through the city, often close enough stationed in the area. the same time a guttural voice said, j and F/O Jack Norelius, spent seven to Nazi soldiers to reach out and The day after they reached the XX CORPS HQ., France, Dec. 'Bands up." nights in swamps and traveled by touch them They crossed the rail- American lines, the filers learned 20.—For outstanding work in Ignoring the demand, Harris spun day on bicycles borrowed from the road unseen and crept into the of the American-German prisoner France since H-plus-60 minutes on around, disarmed the German and French. They escaped from a pri- cafe and upstairs. When the Ger- exhange at St. Nazaire arranged D-Day, the 81st Chemical Bn. has ehoj up the raiding party. son near the coast after their C47 mans finally broke up their party, for that day, and soon after met been awarded the Presidential Unit Final score: one Nazi killed, o,ne was shot down. the fliers fled to a nearby French some of their buddies who were Citation. Major General Walton wounded, one captured and two in In the course of their flight, headquarters. returned to UJ3, forces in the H. Wa.lker, XX Corps Commander, flight. Keller and Norelius hid for a whole On bicycles, they casually rode exchange. presented the citation. Page 4 V.S. NEWS THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 21,1944 All the Comforts of Home U.S. Farmers Tobacco Auction Season Opens A Gift You Can Still Send Overseas Score Another Banner Year WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (ANS). —American farmers have chalked up another glowing year of war- time achievement, the Agriculture PILLOW Department said today in announc- ing that the 1944 crop output about V«ry tlahr. equals the 1942 record of over-all Wtlgh. 4i/2 «l. food production.. Actual Six* 1 '/a by 8 in. The Department announced that an all-time high is expected for the eighth successive year in production of both crops and live stock. The Crop Reporting Board said that growing conditions were much 2 less favorable this year than in 1942, with the season marked by drought last fall and excessive rain throughout the spring planting period. ESIGNED by an cx-soldier for soldiers. During the summer, eastern states underwent severe dry D The E"x Hole pillow r»rov'des welp~m weather,, a difficult manpower si- tuation, and lack of farming equip- AND you can get an extra slip cover for 85c.! That's the deal ment added to production troubles, offered to homefronters by the Lewis and Conger Sleep Shop of New York, in an ad which appeared in papers last Sunday.

This Was America Yesterday: Lupe's Family The chant of the tobacco auctioneer was heard again in the southeast as marketing season opened this month. This warehouse scene To Fight Will in Lexington, Ky, was typical, with tobacco everywhere—except APO Amours Get Blessing in the cigar stores. More than 1,600,000,000 pounds of tobacco—a record—were produced this year, it was announced yesterday. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 20 (ANS).—A battle over the will of From Heart-1 hrob Expert Lupe Velez appeared certain today, after the late screen star's sister, Medic Pay Bill Green Rejects By Joe Fleming Mrs. Josefina Anderson, of San Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau Antonio, said she had retained an attorney to represent her and "my Passage Seen CIO Unity Bid EW YORK, Dec. 20.—APO Amours were given the of- whole family" in forthcoming court ficial blessings of a heartache specialist today when N hearings. NEW YORK, Dec.- 20.—A bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (ANS). "Puzzled" got an affirmative answer to her query: "Do you Mrs. Anderson is one of Lupe's providing combat pay for medics —CIO President Philip Murray think it's possible to fall in love through correspondence?" sisters unmentioned in the will has "excellent prospects" of being invited the American Federation Alma Archer, Hearst press columnist who tells girls written by the actress before her passed after the new House con- of Labor last night to co-operate suicide last Thursday. venes Jan. 3, Rep. Frances P. Bol- i when and how to kiss young men, gave the nod in hei The will bequeaths one-third of in a joint drive for labor objectives, ton (R-Ohio) said today in a tele- but AFL President William Green I release today and said she didn't doubt for a minute that APOs could Lupe's estate, valued at about phone message to The Stars and i foster lasting and enduring lwes. Recalling that one of the happiest $175,000, to Mrs. Beulah Kinder, her rejected the bid today as "some Stripes New York Bureau. She is sort of phoney functional unity, marriages she had ever known was that of a pair who courted via the secretary, and divides the rest into sponsor of the legislation. postman. Archer told "Puzzled" to continue letters to a soldier she two trust funds for her mother and which the CIO has often prated had never seen. The representative said the Army about in fee past." for children of her brother. is supporting the bill, which grants The actress was buried today in Murray wrote Green asking that Just to keep the record straight, Decca records claims that Bing $10 additional pay to enlisted representatives of the unions meet Crosby's recordings of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" have a gleaming ermine cape—part of medics, who have won the corps her large fur collection. to draft a co-operative program, passed the 2,000,000 mark in sales to challenge the all-time record valor badge. aimed at wage adjustments, full held by Gene Austin's "My Blue Heaven." The bill provides that the valor employment after the war, a Something New and Violent in V Weapons badge be awarded under regula- broader social security structure rpHERE were more serious tropics in the U.S. however. In Cleveland, West Reopens tions prescribed by the Secretary and repeal of anti-labor statutes. ■■• Maj. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, army ordnance chief, described of War and that any enlisted man Green replied: "I interpret entitled to the badge will receive Mr. Murray's letter as a flat the new German Western Front V weapon as a wingless comet capable To Japs Jan. 2 additional compensation. of speed greater than sound. He said it was smaller than V2 because refusal on fee part of the CIO to lt is used e,t much shorter ranges. The general said that army SAN FRANCISCO. Dec.20 (ANS). accept the AFL's appeal for resump- ' experts are now studying some of the new rockets which have been — Japanese removed from the Yule Gifts Arrive in U.S. tion of conferences seeking a united I captured. Pacific Coast early in the war will labor movement in America. For German Prisoners "The only way to achieve unity,'4 In Washington the WPB prohibited manufacturers of men's be permitted to return to Califor- nia, Oregon and Washington after Green continued, "is to unite orga- overcoats from making any civilian garments for the next four nically. This is labor's greatest months unless they can meet quotas for GIs at the same time. Jan. 1. Maj. Gen; Henry C. Pratt, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20 (ANS). chief of the Western Defense Com- —The International Red Cross need now and hi the post-war TN New York two corporations, three civilians and a naval officer mand, announced yesterday. ship. Caritas II, bearing 300,000 period. Yet Mr. Murray turns a ■*• were indicted in connection with an alleged conspiracy to Slow Various reactions were reported Christmas bundles for German deaf ear." down the output of the highly secret Norden bombsight. on the West Coast. Gov. Earl PWs in fee U.S. arrived here Satur- day and is reloading with an esti- A major shake-up in the armed forces was foreseen by Hanson Warren appealed for an attitude Porker Brings Record Price that "will discourage friction and mated 500,000 gifts for Americans CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Raymond W. Baldwin, of the New York Times, who predicted that changes interned overseas, the ARC dis- in Army and Navy command positions—both in Washington and prevent civil disorder." Taylor, 17, sold his champ porker Western Defense Command spok- closed. at the Chicago Market Fat-Stock overseas—would come shortly. He said the higher ranks approved First port of call for the Caritas, show here for $637, all-time record by Congress may be followed by promotions farther down the line. esmen said that the lifting of the ban did not mean that there would according to the Red Cross, will of $1.75 per pound. At first the Must Have Been Fun be a wholesale return of population. be Marseilles and next will be hog weighed too much to enter* jVOU spend a dollar just like a pound or a 100-francnote on the home- In a half-dozen of the relocation Goteborg, Sweden but Chet got him down to 299. 1 •* front now. "Just put it down to fun," was the comment of Bonnie centers where the Japs have been Barker, 22-year-old Los Angeles waitress, as she told police of a 60-day contained, it was estimated that •pending spree in which she and a girl friend assertedly spent $11,000. not more than 60,000 of the 119,000 Police said the money was stolen from a Detroit business man while excluded from the West Coast would Peace-Time Draft Hearings he dined in the cafe where Bonnie worked. Bonnie, who said her friend return. told her the money was found, said it went for lots of thick steaks, Slated Next Month In House I parties, hotel suites and shopping trips. FDR Would Improve | A ND in New York a World Telegram reporter was determined to get a carton of cigarettes. He got it but it took him seven hours. Social Security System WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (ANS). Asked if he believed fee legisla- In a trek from 14th Street and Fourth Avenue uptown to Lexington —Chairman May (D.-Ky.), of fee tion should provide for straight and Sixth and back down Madison Avenue to 42nd and across to Fifth WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (ANS). House Military Affairs Committee, military training or, as suggested Avenue to Radio City he collected Marlboros, Rameses, English Ovals —President Roosevelt yesterday announced today that hearings will by President Roosevelt, for educa- Rivolas, Dunhills and Camels. "reluctantly approved" legislation begin next month on peace-time tional military training, May said:] freezing the social security payroll compulsory military training. Date "The WD wants, and we propose Out in the snow-blanketed midwest a woman woulb-be news- tax at one percent, today announced of fee hearings will be determined to give, legislation for straight paperman has just broken a 73-year-old tradition. -A girl named Jill he would submit to Congress soon when 17 committee members mihtary training for a year for Drum became the first coed sports editor of the Illinois U. student a plan "for broadening and improv- return from inspection of the ETO. young men eligible." daily. Jin won the post over several male opponents and gave the ing the social security system" "Many people who formerly op- May has introduced legislation opposite sev possession of every senior job in the paper. . Had the President refused to posed peace-time conscription now making every able-bodied male HOLLYWOOD NOTES—Lee Tracy is back in the films in that sign the measure, Congress almost agree it is essential if we are to citizen liable for a year of mihtary familiar role as a newspaperman in "I'll Tell the Worlds Abbott and certainly would have overridden his preserve peace by being so strong training as soon as he reaches 18. Costello's next will be "The Naughty Nineties.'1 Warner Bros, are veto, United Press reported. It Is no one will attempt to start Following fee training, peace-time first to announce a picture based on the stories of four chaplains who the fourth time Congress has another war," May said. Protests, "draftees" would return to civilian died heroically after giving others their lifebelts when their transport enacted legislation to maintain the he added, have dwindled and been status, subject to call to active •hip was hit. "Four Men of God" la the title. one percent rate. offset By endorsements. duty in emergency. Thursday, Dec. 21,1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 7

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CF THEY NEVAH TH'NOtSC IS CAME BACK'" STIU-SOLOUO THEY CAINT 'HmMARKS HEAR usrr- MAMMY OONT EVEN NOTICE Willie: Papa, why don't you go US, SHE* SO away so I can see Mama dump INTRUSTED IN UOOKIN* that salesman off the fire escape? ROUN'- Papa: Why, Willie, what on earth are you talking about? | Willie: Well, I just heard her tell him that she'd tip him off just as soon as you leave. • • • Coy Miss: I suppose you soldiers are the type who like wine, women and song. PFC: No, we don't care for music. • • • By Courtesy ot News Syndicate. First Gob: I know a guy who Terry And The Pirates By Milton Caniff

WE HAVE JUST LEARNED^ LOCK 5<5r ALLEN BPXJ THAT NO PASSPORT EXISTS TO THINK THIS OVER.' IN THE NAME OF WILLOW IF SHE DOESN'T WISH SELIMPAj IP THE 6KITI4*4 TO TALC AFTgR THAT PASS Ft)ET CONTROL OFFICE - WE "SHALL *E£ WHAT HAS NO Recoer OF A -Sfjfl THE HOT IEON WILL DO 1 CIVILIAN IN INDIA THEN W TO THAT PALE SKIN THAT PERSON DOES NOT

broke his arm fighting for a woman's honor. Second Gob: How come? By Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Syndicate lac. By Chester Gould First Gob: She wanted to keep it. Dick Tracy • • * NO THEATRE Yvonne: We manicurists are STAGE IS BK3 luckier than most girls. EWOUGW TD Vivian: Because we have so MOLD BOTH OF many men at our fingertips? US, MP. TRACY Yvonne: No, because we always YOU MAY TAKE know [where their hands are. • * • OVER FROM And then there was the woman who got mad because her husband never talked in his sleep—he only smiled. • • • This is the story of the absent- minded professor who became a lieutenant in the paratroops. He unbuckled his parachute, stepped out of the plane, counted three Abbie an' Slats By Courtesy ot United Features. By Raeburn Van Buren and pulled his• rank• • . -SPECIAL RATIONS, OTHAIRE U I DO KBEFDRE THE WAR, MAM'SELLE, \J ' WHEN THE BOCHE CAME THE GERMANS-THEY ASKED Cpl. Maury Campbell sez, "No LEETLE FAVORS ///AH -BUT NO ONE I WAS TD FRANCE HER GREATEST HERE, I COULD NOT FLY ME TO PERFORM FOR THEM. WHAT I one pays much attention to apple BELIEVE ME, MAM'SELLE JCOULD SINGEROF THE LOVE SONG"! WEETH THE OTHAIRES !!} COULD I DO, MAM'SELLE, BUT I WOULD RAIMA I RE AVETHAVE THE skins, but if it's a peach peeling— \S THE SINATRA,THE I HAD-UH-RESPONSI- AGREE? NATURALLY-BECAUSE BEEN WEETH MY FELLOW/GLORIOUS oh, boy." CROSBY/.'/ ALL BILITIES HERE EEN THEY ADORED ME AS AN ARTIST • • • PARIS- - INVESTMENTS, WEESHED ME TO BE COM- A COUNTRYMEN- STARVING, S VOICE Our spy on the home front sez, MY THEATRE-OTHER PORTABLE-ALLOWED ME TO <| SUFFERING, BLEEDING- J YOU HAVE "The scarcity of men has made PROPERTIES. YOU KEEP MY THEATRE POUR LA FRANCE//. < AND NOT YOU. DO BELIEVE |BE FINE- many girls good and lonely." UNDAIRESTAN'- CHATEAU • * • • • ME, MAM'- / INSIDE/// SELLE? A mysterious lady in black just stepped up, slipped this verse into Our hand and left: A wolf is a guy with a glint in his eye And a thought in the back of his head. If you see him coming, you'd better start running— The rest is much• bette• • r unsaid. Advice to parents of fond off- By Courtesy of King Features Syndicate By B. Zaboly spring: A pat on the back develops Popeye character—if administered often enough, young enough and low enough. 4,942 AWOL Jerricans Apprehended by MPs

WITH THE U.S. SERVICE FOR- CES IN ETO, Dec. 20.—The MPs of the 795th Military Police Bat- talion in the Communcations Zone aren't saying anything these days about the i.inerant GIs they're picking up, but they laid claim today to something of a record in collecting stray jerricans. Since the drive opened, this outfit has turned in 4,942 cans, which is enough to send 24,710 gallons of precious gasoline to the fighting front and keep a Sherman tank going for better than 200 days.

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Time TODAY 1230—Music Society ot Basin Street. 1901—Bing Crosby. 1830—American Dance Band. *805—Rudy Vallee. TOMORROW 0925—AEF Ranch House. 1301—John Charles Thomae. 1930—Kate Smith. *030—Maj. Glenm Miller's Band. Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 21,1944 A Nazi Rocket Takes-Off Night Attack in Holland As British Cross Wessem Canal

This unusual picture shows a German rocket taking to the air just after being fired from a It* e n ThiM/Jorhnlt m lne Dul m pIemy awKwara on mobile launcher in a Warsaw street. The Ger- i* •> I* ± IIUIILIKI VUII ground, especially these days when the rain mans used the weapon to rain devastation over and snow turn airfields into seas of mud. This is a scene at a First Tactical Air Force the Polish capital. Picture from neutral source. station where a tractor palls a P47 onto the runway before takeoff.

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Maj. Gen. James Gavin, 37, of Mount Carmel, Pa., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, who has led his men through combat jumps in Sicily, Italy U.S. Army Signal Corps Photos, and two campaings on the FifSt fi fl %> °* w'n^er is today—that's what the calendar out. At left, Pvt. Tom Mahan of the Seventh Army, dries his field "7 * UUJ says, although it came much earlier as far M jacket in front of a fir*, while above, members of the Eighth Western Front. He is one of the IM Joes out on the front are concerned. These pictures bear that Inf. Div. put up a wind breaks as a snowstorm begins. youngest generals of his rank.