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Vol. 1—No. 138 lFr. New York—PARIS—London lFr. Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 GI Handiwork On Siegfried Line 2 Key Alsatian, Saar Cities Fall to Yanks; Mightiest Bomber Fleet Hits Reich

500 Italian-Based House Votes 5th Star PattersonTells U.S. Heavies Assault For'General of Army9 Drive Is 'Ahead Vienna Area WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 Of Schedule' — The House voted without dissent to put a new temporary The mightiest heavy bomber five-star rank atop the Army American armies hammer- fleet ever hurled against the and Navy to be known as "Ge- ed at the great Ruhr and neral of the Army" and "Ad- Saar industrial regions of Nazis by the Eighth Air Force miral of the Fleet." —more than 1,600 Liberators A House member said he be- Western Germany yesterday and Flying Fortresses—thun- lieved the new top ranks will go in fog, snow and rain while dered over the Reich yester- to Gens. Marshall, Arnold, Ei- overhead the mightiest Al- senhower and MacArthur and lied air fleet ever sent against day, blasting railyards in the Adms. King, Leahy, Nimitz and Frankfurt area with nearly Halsey of the Navy. The Bill the Reich blasted railheads 6,000 tons of explosives. provides an annual base pay of behind the bending German Escorted by 800 fighters, $13,000. lines. and flying in columns 300 miles U.S. Third Army troops seized long, the armada of heavies pound- the key city of Sarreguemines in the ed the rail network behind the Saar and U.S. Seventh Army troops Rhine at Frankfurt, Hannau and Nazis Rush Aid to the east captured the northern Huge columns of black smoke and debris, fill the sky after Ninth Army Alsatian city of Hagenau without engineers set off charges under a German pillbox in the Siegfried Line. Giessen, unloading its bombs through heavy, low-lying clouds To Stem Drive the expected house-to-house struggle, which prevented observation of re- United Press front reports said last sults of the raid. night. The Stars and Stripes front dis- 500 15th AF Heavies Attack 77th Div.TakesOrmoe, F6r Budapest patches revealed for the first time At the same time, nearly 500 that Nazis were withdrawing their more Forts and Libs of the 15th The Germans announced yester- forces east of the River Roer as Air Force, supported by 350 fight- day that fresh tank and SS units U.S. First Army troops smashed Dooms Leyte Garrison ers, drove over the Alps to attack had been thrown into the battle 2,000 yards eastward in a snow- an ordnance depot and railyards for Budapest with orders to give storm to within a mile of the at Vienna, an oil refinery 22 miles not an inch of ground to the Red swollen river's western bank. The battle for the Philippines took a decisive turn yes- northwest of Vienna, and marshall- Army forces battering at the su- terday as the veteran 77th Div. seized the Leyte port of ing yards at Graz, 100 miles south burbs of the Hungarian capital. Waited for Supplies Ormoc, the enemy's last seaport on the island where re- of the Austrian capital. Moscow dispatches, quoted by the In the United States, meanwhile. Undersecretary of War Robert Pat- inforcements and supplies could be brought in to aid their Yesterday's record assault by Associated Press, said that Soviet Eighth heavies followed by a few forces were within four miles of terson disclosed that renewal of doomed garrison. hours an attack by an estimated Budapest on the north and south, large-scale operations after the Hie fall of the port came late 500 RAF Lancasters and Mosqui- while Red Army artillerymen were drive through France and Belgium Sunday night after infantrymen, End of Jap War toes on the Ruhr industrial area at shelling the city from the east. —which were cleared "m o n t h s veterans of the Guam campaign, Osterfield, Heiderich and Bruck- The AP said there was no sign of ahead of schedule"—had to be de- had worked a squeeze play on a hausen. any German withdrawal from the ferred until supplies could be ac- Jap force south of Ormoc, Gen. In 1949 Seen Late reports last night indicated city, and supplies were rushed over cumulated. MacArthur announced. (Continued on Page 8) the enemy's last highway into Bu- Patterson said Paris was taken Late dispatches last night said BOSTON, Dec. 11 (ANS).—The dapest from Vienna. by the Allies 60 days ahead of that the U.S. Seventh Div., en- U.S. Navy estimates it will take five After breaking through on the schedule, although the Allied forces trenched in the hills north of Or- more years of fighting in the Paci- Julich Sportpalast northern, eastern and southern had fallen behind the military moc, had engaged elements of the fic before the Japanese are de- approaches to the city the Soviets time-table when they were penned Jap garrison retreating from the feated, Walker Mason, WPB re- Hit by U.S. Planes have maintained unflagging pres- on the Normandy Peninsula at the captured harbor base. Gen. Mac- gional director, told a labor con- sure on all sectors, keeping the en- outset of the campaign. He dis- Arthur predicted a link-up between ference yesterday. tire German garrison in Budapest cussed the time-table in an address WITH 29th CORPS, GERMANY, the 7th, moving from the north, He said that a European victory occupied. North of Budapest, Gen. prepared for radio broadcast en> Dec. 11.—It took just 120 seconds and the 77th, in Ormoc. will "have absolutely no effect on (Continued on Page 8) to get quarter-ton bombs thudding (Continued on Page 8) Seizure of Ormoc by the 77th arms and armament for the Navy, followed closely the surprise land- so great is the offensive program into the enemy-held Julich Sport- ing last Thursday three miles south against Japan." He quoted the palast after the 29th Div. had Hacking at Siegfried Defenses of the port. Navy as saying the astronomical requested fighter-bomber support, American fighter planes smashing amounts of ammunition that are it was revealed today. Jap troop concentrations and sup- being used in the Pacific war have Three flights of 29th TAC fighter- (Continued on Page 8) just nicked the skin. bombers were circling Schophoven, waiting for 30th Div. radio to approve another target, when the 29th Div. called the 29th Corps Air Bradley Lists 'Battle Orders' Support officer, Major D. R. McGovern, of Providence, R.I. Maj. McGovern was about to call For GIs Dealing With Nazis for fresh air support when the 30th Div. decided they didn't need the fighters. At a nod from Mc- 12th ARMY GROUP HQ.—"Stern treat the Germans as-we would our Govern, S/Sgt. Joseph A. Buckling, courtesy and firmness tempered with opponents in a football game after Jr., of Staunton, 111., radioed the strict justice" toward Germans was the final whistle. We do not want fighters over Schophoven to fly ordered yesterday by Lt. Gen Omar to play a return game next year north and attack the Sportpalast. N. Bradley, 12th Army Group com- or in 20 years." mander for the "conquering" troops In an introduction to what he of the Ninth, First and Third called special "battle orders," Gen. Nazi Counter-Attacks Armies. Bradley wrote to his troops, "It is Halted by 8th Army Seven "battle orders," issued in imperative that you do not allow booklet form, govern conduct of yourselves to become friendly with ALLIED HQ., Rome, Dec. 11 Army personnel with German sol- Germans, but at the same time you (AP).— German counter-attacks diers end civilians. In a letter to must not persecute them. Amer- against the Eighth Army bridge- unit commanders, Gen. Bradley ican soldiers can and have beaten head west of the River Lamone wrote that "this war Is not a German soldiers on the field of have been defeated decisively, to- American forces surge forward into the Saar's Siegfried defenses sporting proposition. We must not (Continued on Page 8) day's communique reported. from Metzig, in the north to Hagenau, which fell yesterday. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 Nazi's Diary Reveals Snow Helps Ack-Ack Grews Camouflage Gun Sites Might of Yank Assault

American soldiers of the First U.S. Army got an idea how it feels to be under one of their own attacks when they captured a German medic who had kept a diary of the fighting in the Gey-Grosshau sector. His story starts Nov. "The nours pass slowly and as I peer out of my hole the first dim light snows in the east. The hour FW190Factory Is approaching. We expect the 'Ami' (German slang for American) to attack at 7 30 Then our fate InCave to Build will oe decided. Our CO is looking toward Grosshau. he has a, good vantage point. Allied Aircraft "It's Sunday. My God, today is By Pat Mitchell Sunday Stars and Stripes Staff Writer "To our leit, machine-guns begin A French airplane factory, subsi- Sifting snows on the Western to cnatter—and nere come the Ami. dized by the Nazis to make FWI90s Front, provide added camou- In broad waves you can see nim and driven underground by Eighth flage for this Seventh Army come across she field. Tanks all AF bombs before D-Day. is now Anti- aircraft emplacement around nim ai: tiring wildly. Now tooling up for four-motored trans- (above), but elsewhere the the American artillery ceases and port plane production, it was re- weather offers little but dis- the tank guns are firing like mad. vealed yesterday. comfort. At right, Sgt. Richard Can't stick my head out of my The factory. 65 miles east of Bor- Taylor, Signal Corps photo- hole—finally there are three Ger-i deaux, was moved into a limestone grapher, cleans rapidly-freezing man assault guns. With ' few cave. The Germans installed air- snow from the windshield of shots we can see several tanks conditioning and lighting fixtures his jeep burning once again. Long smoke and built a cement floor for the columns are rising toward heaven. underground production line. The infantry attack slows down- Before the war, the factory, owned G5 Locates Art It's stopped! by the Societe Nationale de Con- struction Aeronautique du Sud- Stolen by fsiazis Nazis Counter-attack Ouest (SNCASO), manufactured At Pas-de-Calais "Unbelievably, with this handful two-engined French bombers in five of men, we hold out against such plants in the Bordeaux area. When Fire-fighting, care of refugees and attacks. And now we go forward the Germans overran France, two repair of disrupted civilian services to the counter-attack. The captain factories were converted to turn are among the types of work super- Is leading it himself. Can't go far out FWI89s, German reconnaissance vised by SHAEF Civil Affairs offi- though, our people ar? dropping planes. cials in Germany, France and the like tired flies. We have to go Then U.S. Planes Struck Low Countries, according to a re- back and leave a number of dead port summarizing their activities and wounded. The two plants netted the Ger- mans about 30 aircraft a month. on the Continent during the last "Nov 27—Amidst yells, they are Then the Fortresses and Liberators two months. 'Bivouac-Built' Bridge Cuts breaking out of the forest again struck. Officers have checked looting and among their tanks. The Ami is In May, 1943, Liberators knocked destruction of historic treasures and getting closer now but the murder- out one factory. Then B17s and archives, and recently uncovered Engineers' Time Under Fire ous fire of our MGs force, him to B24s followed up with four attacks art works hidden at the Chateau the ground. des Vaux in France which had been on the second plant. At that point, WITH 35th INF. DIV. —When able to cross the flooded, muddy "Nov. 28. — Suddenly the tanks the Nazis moved underground and taken from the Pas-de-Calais and Nord departments. you're building a bridge under river in Lorraine a few hours and then hordes of Amis are break- converted the machinery to pro- ing out of the woods. Several trials involving civilians heavy enemy fire, the idea is to after their current offensive was duce FWI90s, according to USSTAF launched, enter and hold a strate- Take Up New Positions have been held, G5 reported. In get in there, get the job done, and officials. gic town and receive supplies and But Maquis-inspired sabotage dis- France and Belgium, detachments get out—fast. Latest feat of the "As they get within 70 paces, I are aiding in distribution of food ammunition immediately. turn and walk away. Very calmly, rupted production so that not one 60th Combat Engineers, miracle- "The idea of the bridge," ex- plane ever became airborne and coal. Flood victims are receiv- working unit of the 35th Div., is with my hands in my pockets They ing aid in the Netherlands. plained S/Sgt. Harold D. Miller, of are not shooting at me. perhaps USSTAF reported four other in- a "bivouac-built" bridge that they Warsaw, Mo., as the first tanks because of the red cross on my stances of Nazi-controlled factories placed across a river in 20 minutes, crossed the swollen stream, "is that having to go underground. A ball- back. New Jungle Uniform with no time out for ducking Nazi we rig it up in the rear and then "Maybe I'll get out of this alive. bearing plant was set up in a grotto shells. near Paris; Ratier propellor factory Frustrates 'Skeeters move it up as a ready-made article. If so, I can tell the story myself. Thanks to the ingenuity of the That way, it cuts down the enemy's moved into the Metro tunnels under 60th, tanks of the Third Army were But if I remain in this torn-up FORT BENNING, Ga., Dec. 11 time shooting at you." woods, perhaps a comrade will find Paris streets; Nazi VI and Volks- waggon assembly lines were forced (Reuter). — A new mosquito-repel- this book and send it to my wife." lent uniform for Americans fight- Then the Germans surrendered. into caves at Longwy, and Messer- Non-West Front Britons Blue and Grey Division schmidt fuselages were made under- ing in jungle areas has been ground at Algranges. announced. To Get 4-Week Leaves Photo Section Chief Honored "We have finished a test where Captures 19,000 PWs Col. Kirke B. Lawton, Signal a number of men sat for an hour LONDON, Dec. 11. — Prime Min- Corps, chief of SHAEP Public Whole Blood for Leyte and a half In the worst mosquito- NINTH U.S. ARMY HQ., Dec. 11. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11 (ANS). infested spot we could find," Maj. ister Churchill revealed to the —A chunk of the Wehrmacht, Relations Division Film and Photo House of Commons recently a plan section, has been awarded the —Whole blood will be available co John Brinsmead, of the U.S. Infan- numerically greater than the 29th wounded servicemen as far away as try Board, said. "Those men wear- to give four-week leaves at home Legion of Merit for outstanding to 80,000 British soldiers who have Div. itself, has been captured by work in developing the Army Pic- Leyte Island 48 hours after being ing the old type uniform averaged drawn from the donor in San Fran- had long service overseas. About the "Blue and Greys," which since torial Service. Lawton, is credited 19 bites a man. The men wear- 6,000 men a month will be brought with successful establishment and cisco under a new aero medical pro- ing the new uniform averaged less D-Day has sent , more than 19,000 gram being Inaugurated this week. home. The plan excludes soldiers operation of the V-mail system in than one bite." on the European western front. prisoners to PW cages. this theater. In the last six months the 29th has fired 7,000,000 rounds of 30 and 50 cal. bullets and 267,000 artillery We'd Be Proud, Too, Army Talks—of Babes and Bullets shells from the Normandy beaches If Fifth Were Ours to the shores of the Roer River. By Ralph G. Martin The division signal company has mud, about cold wetness that The private who answered him laid enough telephone wire to Men in the 735th Tank Bn. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. seeped through their blankets at had been in the hospital suffering stretch twice around the world. have been quietly smouldering WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY. night, about the chow. from shell concussion. Pvt. Earl for a long time, they say, be- Dec. 11.—The Reppel Depple boys "I'll tell you the truth," said Pfc Yochum, 19, is a machine gunner. cause The Stars and Stripes Emerson Huffins, of Magnetic Before the war, he was a peanut Stimson Says Yanks published an article saying that in the pyramidal tent were waiting Springs, Ohio. "I'm not anxious farmer in Waverly, Tenn. the Fifth Inf. Div. made the trek for the chow line to shorten. to go back. I've been shelled too "Sure you're scared," he said. "1 Are 'Brave, Homesick' across France on Seventh Ar- Some were young men,, wearing damn much. I can't take it like don't know anybody who isn't. But mored Div. tanks. you young guys; I'm not young any new-style field jackets Issued to you'll get used to it. You get used MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 11 more. Besides. I've got a wife and Having fought with the Fifth them in the States only a short to everything. I've got all my old (ANS).—"No country ever need fear kid to think about." from Caumont to Metz, the time ago; others were veterans in buddies up there. I want to go a United States army of occupa- 735th has come to regard tbe One of the new men, Pvt. William war-dirtied clothes. Still others back." tion," Secretary of War Stimson Fifth as its own infantry and Fifield, of Easton, Pa., spoke up, "The way I feel about it," said a said yesterday. "Our boys want to were pale Joes just out of the hos- a little apologetically: its tankmen say anyone who pital. red-headed farmer from Kimms- get home. The American soldier wants to fiispute ownership will "I just saw a friend of mine in wick, Mo., "is that you've got to They were talking about women. is not afraid of anything but is a find he has a job on his hands. an evac hospital. He came over have faith. I know I'm not going They discussed the fine points of most homesick creature when he's The battalion CO says the here the same time I did. Then to die unless it's time for me to at war in foreign lands." mistake was understandable, cleanliness, anatomy, culture and one day they called out his name die." love-making ability in America and He also said that returning sol- however. No one could possibly and that same night he was up There was an awkward silence. overseas. The new fellows kept diers must be made to realize that read the battalion number on front with an anti-tank gun. Two Then somebody looked out c£ the those tanks—too many infantry- their mouths shut, their ears open. hours later the medics carried him America was a place where the sun tent and yelled that the chow line shone all the time and that t£e men fesocned on them. From sex, the conversation shifted away. I'm scared about going up had shrunk, ^ey^grabbed their to Repple Depple griping about there." country is not made up entirely of mess kits and ran*Bke hell. strikers and exploiters. Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3 Supplies Pour OzarkDivision. From Rebuilt Combat Joe Is King Led byKeating, French Ports In Non-GI Rest City Aided 9thDash Fully 75 percent of all UB. Army WITH THE 102nd INF. DIV.. supplies for the Western Front are GERMANY.—Brig Gea Frank A. being shipped directly to France Keating's 102nd Inf. Div., which from the United States, Maj. Gen. interrupted preparations to embark Frank S. Ross, ETO Chief of Trans- for France to help settle the Phila- portation Corps, disclosed yester- delphia street-car strike last Au- day. gust, supported the opening of the One ton of supplies has been un- U.S. Ninth Army drive to the Roer loaded at • continental ports each River on Nov. 16, it was officially month for every American soldier disclosed, according to Associated in France, Belgium and Germany, Press Correspondent Franklin he said. Banker. In the artificially - constructed Arriving in France Sept. 24 the beach ports of Omaha and Utah, Ozark Division slipped up to Ger- in the rebuilt ports of Cherbourg, many a few weeks before the at- Le Havre, Rouen and Antwerp and tack to get a first taste of combat in lesser Channel ports "more than against some of Hitler's best troops 1,000,000 long tons of supplies were guarding the gateway to the vital discharged in one month alone," he industries in the Ruhr Valley. revealed. The 102nd units were sand- wiched between battalions of battle- 1,000 Locomotives Put Ashore tried Second Armored and 29th European transportation, Gen. and 30th Divs, while cutting their Ross said, was badly mauled by battle teeth. Allied bombings and German de- Soldiers on pass lrom the battle grind live in hotels for two (lays at Ordered to Aid in Strike molition squads. 'There is a dire a recreation center in Belgium. Left: T/4 Paul F. Little, Gettysburg, The War Department ordered shortage of rolling stock and the Pa., takes that hot shower. Center: The landlady's niece pours a two of the division's regiments continental waterways, which be- cup of coffee for Sgt. James W. Helton, Stanley, N.C. Right: Pvt. from Ft. Dix to Philadelphia in fore the war were the best deve- Robert E. Krugger, Erie, Pa., pens a letter home. August to guard property of th« loped in the world, have not yet Philadelphia Transportation Co. carried anything like their normal No MP Worries Here during the strike. The regiment re- capacity." —Guys Do What turned to Ft. Dix a few days later He said: "We have put ashore Pillbox Had a Number, But— and took up where they left off In embarkation arrangements. •1,000 locomotives and more than They Like Gen. Keating, 49, has command- 2,000 railroad cars to carry the Yanks Came and It Was Up burden of freight we discharge ed the division since January. He By Charles W. White from cross-Channel and transat- rose to general from buck private, Stars and Stripes Staff Writer WITH FIRST ARMY COMBAT ENGINEERS. — Fifteen serving in France in the 29th Div. lantic vessels. Port facilities have BELGIUM, Dec. 11.—Several out- minutes and 500 yards behind infiltrating infantrymen, 12 in World War I. been repaired to the extent that J fits up here in the Aachen neigh- Gen Keating, a resident of we are landing many times the ' First Army combat engineers stumbled over the frozen mud borhood have established rest Ridgewood, N.J., studied journalism peace-time traffic of such ports as of the Hurtgen Forest southeast of Aachen as they ap- camps for combat soldiers, but in the college of the City of NY.. Cherbourg." when Maj. Sol Radam, of Akron, j proached the Nazi-held pillbox No. 32-241-08. After working on the Ridgewood Shorten Supply Routes O, got orders to do something Armed only with hand grenades News for a while he gave it up for about it he took over a whole town, and captured pistols, the engineers, a military career. Gen. Ross said that the Trans- complete with hotels, movies, barber 'Haifway House' led by 1/Lt. Ted Slobordian. of Activated In Sept., 1942, at Camp portation Corps had brought to the shops—even a brewery. Chicago, lugged 50-pound sacks of Maxey, Tex., the 102nd Inf. Div., Continent more than one million If you're one of the GIs who Is Tourist Home TNT and coils of primacord toward did most of its training in Texas GIs, morevthan 4,000,000 dead- draw 48s to this town you don't the pillbox, a two-roomed, reinforced The division received its officer weight tons of freight, and more have to worry about MPs. Wear In Army Manner concrete fort with an access in the j ~'£ from "the Second Inf. Div., than 300,000 vehicles of all types. Te anything you like, go anywhere you rear- j while Keating was chief of staff In 1944, both in UK and Euro- please, drink all the beer you can First it was GI "hot dog stands" Sgt. Paul Salesky, of Philadelphia,! of the Second, pean ports, more than 6,000,000 at three francs a glass or cognac at on the way to the" front. Now the studied the foot-thick door His j long tons of food, weapons, ve- 15 francs a shot and if you get too first militarized "tourist home" has ^XZX0f expl°slvei Recon Pilot, P47s Bag hicles, ammunition, and other sup- much the MPs will carry you home. been set up, halfway between Paris plies were unloaded from more The passes are rationed out to and the front lines, to handle Go to Work Again Train in Double Play than 2,800 cargo ships. Record use units in the corps on a general di- i soldiers looking for a hot meal and The men felt the concrete build- of French ports has shortened sup- rective that two percent of the men a place to hit the hay. NINTH AIR FORCE RECON- ply routes to the front by 800 can be off at any given time. Ac- ing shudder when the charge de- The Halfway House—it has even NAISSANCE BASE. — Armed only truck miles and* brought about the cording to Sgt. Walter Novick, of tonated, blowing open' the access been named in tourist home fashion with cameras, 1/Lt. David R. Sto- end of the Red Ball Highway, East Walpole, Mass., who is ser- door. No Germans or remains of —has been established by the Oise pher, Baton Rouge, La., a Ninth which carried half a million tons geant major of the camp, they also Germans were in the first room. Base Section primarily for combat Air Force Mustang reconnaissance of supplies in its 81-day life, it get a lot of stragglers, men who The "safe crackers" went to work troops en route to Paris on pilot,- spotted a Nazi freight train was disclosed. Also ended before have lost their outfits, etc., and again—on the steel door separat- furlough, or on the way back to north of Aachen. its existence was officially dis- take care of all comers. ing the two rooms. The men work- their outfits. Heading for home, he met a closed was the Green Diamond v Real Beds an'1 Mattresses ed fast, scurried out of the fort as Thunderbolt squadron all bombed Manned by six sergeants and a the five-second fuse spluttered, Highway, which ran between Cher- Organization is like any big army up, but no place to go. His radio captain, Halfway House provides caught hold, detonated another 250 bourg and Brittany rail heads. camp, with CO, first sergeant, sup- frequency different, he drew up dinner for transients. In Individual pounds of hell. Two new freight highways have ply sergeant, PX and all—but the alongside the lead P47, sign-ian- cars or in convoy, and if the hot Pillbox 32-241-08 had taken 20 been opened. These are the White first sergeant hasn't any whistle guaged them into following him. food runs out there's always a minutes. Ball route from Le Havre and and there isn't any reveille. The From his grandstand seat he reserve of coffee. The combat crew included Cpi Rouen to the east, and the Amer- hotel managers, cooks and GI watched the fighter-bombers blow Halfway House claims to be one Stan Mikowsky, of New York; Cpl. ican-British-Canadian (ABO Ex- staffs are mostly combat men them- up the train. Icel Modisitt, of Eaton, W. Va.; Pvt press, which trucks supplies east- selves, out of action for one reason of the most popular tourist homes Joseph Radockovitz, of Chicago; ward from Allied-operated Antwerp, or another. in existence. From Nov. 1 to Nov. Kills 12 Nazis in Night Pvt. Frank P. Brown, of St. Johns. world's third largest port. Suppose you are one of the lucky 21, approximatly 17,000 guests Ky.; Pvt. Warren Jemison, of San WITH FOURTH ARMORED individuals out of your company were fed Francisco; Pfc. Waiter Sadlowskl, DIV. -Sgt. Russell J. Breece. of assigned to this camp. They jerk Rome, N.Y., killed ten Germans you right out of the line. You pile of South Chicago, 111.; Pfc. Mike /Vou? They're Giving 5th Inf. Div. with his rifle and two others with into a truck and the batch is deli- Fitzgerald and Pvt. Charles S. a grenade when he directed assault GIs Keys to Foxholes vered at the depot center. You Nuttal, of Philadelphia; Pvt. Joseph gun fire that smashed back a night register, get your tags, get assigned WITH THE FIFTH INF. DIV., Miller, of Geneva, Ohio, and Pvt. attack. WITH 94th INF. DIV. IN to a hotel and the place is yours. FRANCE.— The inter-com system Clarence Hulton, of Clinton, Iowa. FRANCE, Dec. 11.—The French Most of the hotels have "civvy" beds went dead when S/Sgt. Richard F. are not only turning over the with mattresses. Some men prefer Helnzelman, of Waukesha, Wis., keys to the cities to the Amer- cots. Men are asked to bring one was guiding his tank forward under Tokyo Raiders' in France ican soldiers but are giving them blanket because of a shortage. U heavy enemy machine-gun and the keys to foxholes, according you need any clothing, you get it— mortar fire, near Cormolain, so HE Tokyo Raiders, who first blasted the Heavenly City under to Lt. Donald L. Renck, of and no statement of charges. Heizelman climbed to the turret to command of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, are now in France, Weiner, Ark. Although there are virtually no direct the driver. T flying First Tactical Air Force Marauders in support of the U.S. Lt. Renck had completed rules, Major Radam says there isn't He was wounded while in this digging a foxhole when he de- any need for them. Seventh Army. position but he stuck to his post, The group, whose 16 Mitchell bombers took off from the USS cided he needed added protec- enabling the tank to wipe out Hornet April 16, 1942, to take the first crack at Nippon, have been tion. In his search he came XV Corps several mortar and machine-gun in action three years, flying 35,000 sorties and dropping 40,000 upon a house with the roof positions, until the vehicle was im- tons of bombs. blown off, and decided the door mobilized by enemy action. Then WITH THE XV CORPS. — Pvt. The Raiders operated in the Far East, in the Mediteranean and of the house would make an he helped evacuate members of the Clarence Ness, of Gold Bar, Wash., in Italy before coming to France, and have participated in five excellent cover. crew before seeking safety. climbed a drain pipe to the roof amphibious operations, it was stated. The group has been cited four Just as Lt. Renck was about Heinzelman received the DSC. of a two-story building and yanked times and is the first Allied unit, ground or air, to win the Croix de to camouflage the hole and door, a soldier loose from a high-voltage Guerre in World War II. a Frenchman strolled over, put cable, using the victim's shirt as 30th Div. Well Decorated "Targets in Germany are no more impressive than those in out his hand and offered him Insulation. For saving his buddy's WITH 30th INF. DIV. — Since other theaters," said Maj. Joseph Magdich, of Moundsville, West Va, the "keys to the door." They life, Ness, member of an AA bat- the 30th Div. landed In Normandy who led a group attack on a 275-foot rail bridge at Bontzenheih, worked, too. tery, was awarded a Soldier's medal. it has received 1,535 decorations. northeast of Mulhouse.

f Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 U.S. Shoppers King Winter Slaps States With An Icy Hand Job Protection Spend 3 Billion For War 'Vets' On Xmas Gifts Termed Weak NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (ANS).— WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (ANS). Approximately $3,500,000,000 will be —Sniping at the Selective Service spent on Christmas gifts in the Act, Frederick H. Harbison, Uni- U.S. according to estimates by versity of Chicago Industrial Rela- retailers who foresee the greatest tions Center director, asserted the holiday shopping spree in the na- measure would give jobs to only 20 percent of returning soldiers and tion's history. declared that "no one knows exactly A UP survey of seven key cities what the law guarantees -veterans." supported the retail estimate. In Even those among the fortunate spite of such optimisim, complaints 20 percent might have little protection under the act, Harbison about shortages continued to accent said, asserting that those with reports from shoppers. Luxury junior seniority will have to wait items are especially hard to find their turn for promotion regard- it was indicated. less of their war service A retail credit organization estimated that retail sales for October, Claims System Arbitrary November and December would be Harbison quoted Selective Service five to ten percent greater for the This was the general scene in parts of United States last night after officials as saying that veterans country as a whole than the same 14 Persons Lose Lives weekend snows had fallen to the depth of twelve inches in some sec- previously employed would be period last year. tions. The picture above is of the first snowfall of the season in returned to former jobs without Chicago Sales Up In Auto Crashes on the Vermont Mountains. regard to seniority. He described this as a weakness which, oy In Atlanta, sales for -the week Midwest Roads |_only scattered flurries continued. Rain which preceded the snow- imposing a completely arbitrary ending November 25 were 31 percent Weather Bureau predictions" for fall in much of Kansas and Mis- system, would make it possible for greater than for the same week in NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (ANS).—A today anticipated only light snow souri left an undercoating of ice veterans with short seniority to 1943. Chicago merchants estimated blanket of snow ranging in depth in some sections, and temperatures as temperatures fell. It was three displace a person with long senior- their total would exceed $160,000,- from three to 12 inches covered the ranging down to 20 above. above at Denver last night, nine ity who has stayed on the job. 000—more than ten percent increase Midwest today in the lower lakes Slush turned to ice on streets and above at Garden City, Kan., and 16 But since the Selective Service over last year. The same thing region and in the upper Mississippi highways. Traffic conditions grew above in northwestern Oklahoma law requires, a company to rehire was true in New York where a gross valley, where 14 persons lost their more hazardous, and automobile In the south, Jacksonville, Fla., a veteran only for one year, he of $200,000,000 was anticipated. lives in traffic accidents on icy clubs .warned motorists to driva continued, after that period he roads. reported murky and cold conditions San Francisco retailers looked slowly and avoid country driving. with 32 to 35 degrees forecast for could be displaced by a person who forward to a gross of $30,000,000— Although it was still snowing in Meanwhile, airline schedules were Tuesday morning. Little Rock, had accrued more seniority as a $6,500,000 greater than in '43. lower Michigan, the storm had cancelled in most of the affected Ark., had a reading of 25 degrees, temporary war worker. abated in most of the area and Toy stocks were holding out fairly with traces of snow. Meanwhile the War Labor board well except in Denver where one last night asked Selective Service store reported .its stock was ten headquarters to decide whether the percent of normal. Some stores 4,400,000 GIs Cast Votes, Red, White and Blue war veteran who had been serving in the U.S. were selling used tri- apprenticeship at the time of rite cycles and other reconditioned Not for Capitol Dome induction ~Tnay qualify for auto- items. Giving Roosevelt Big Lead matic promotion to a journeyman's WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 wage rate without completing his (ANS).—The President's mail apprenticeship. NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (ANS).—Approximately 4,400,000 brought a suggestion that the StettiniusPlans soldiers voted in last month's presidential election—a fig- Capitol dome be painted red, ure far in excess of any pre-election estimate, the New white and blue. "It would make Farm Advisers York Times reported today on the basis of a vote survey in every American feel proud," Big Shakeups wrote Oscar O'Neill, of Wash- thirty states. ington. Ready for GIs WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (ANS).— The paper said that in thirty 'Teen-Age Veterans David Lynn, Capitol architect, State Department reorganization states for which the figures were blinked once or twice and dic- WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (ANS). available the armed forces cast a plans to streamline and speed ad- tated the reply: '"We appreciate —The government stands ready to total of 3,094,042 ballots. A canvass Get Discharge Slip your interest, but «* long has lend a hand to any GI Joe who ministration are about' completed of soldier and civilian votes in seven been the custom to paint sand- wants to become a farmer after and scheduled for announcement states—Arkansas, Colorado, Mary- FT. SHERIDAN, ILL., Dec. 11.— stone and cast Iron in colo:: to land, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Penn- the war, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, this week. Two battle-scarred v et e r a n s of harmonize with the marble-face administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Under the new scheme respons- sylvania and Rhode Island—con- fighting in France and Germany, wings. The traditional appear- firmed indications immediately after ance is very satisfactory." said today. ibility for policy decisions Is re- James J. Garvin, 17, and Ray- Advisory committees have been the election that Mr. Roosevelt was ported more broadly distributed. mond S. Wallace, 15, both of Chi- set up in almost every county in a stronger favorite of military than cago, were honorably discharged Official disclosure of the new of civilian voters. Gov. Donnell in Lead the nation. Through the Agricultu- setup may be delayed until the from the Army here yesterday. ral Extension Service, these com- Senate has acted on the nomina- GIs Carry New Jersey Chest bedecked with awards.— As Count Nears End mittees will offer free advice to tions of Undersecretay Joseph C. including the Purple Heart—these veterans on local farming condi- The Times revealed that the ser- beardless combat veterans said Grew and five new assistant secre- vice vote affected the decision in JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Dec. 11 tions and will help him pick his taries. An extensive personnel thev were glad to return to civilian (ANS).—Gov. Forest C. Donnell's farm. Certifying committees will be New Jersey, where the President's lifef Wallace, who enlisted at 14 shake-up is expected after the new military vote lead of more than election as U.S. Senator from Mis- set up to pass on loans. men take office, although there is last year, planned to return to souri was made certain yesterday Hines announced that the regula- 30,000 overcame a slight lead held school, and Garvin said he hoped no indication of important policy by Dewey in the civilian vote and put as a state canvass showed him tions governing the guaranty of reversals. to return to work on a farm near 1,977 votes ahead, with only about the state in the Democratic column. Verona, 111. farm loans under the GI Bill of 3,000 votes still to be counted. Rights authorize the government Composed of comparatively young In New York State almost 600- The Army sent them home when The incomplete canvass showed to guarantee half of loans up to men, the new state department 000 applications were received, but their real age was revealed. Gar- high command, headed by Secretary 777,554 votes for the Republican $2,000. only 442,698 ballots were cast. Like- vin was wounded July 7 but went governor and 775,577 votes for his Stettinius, Will have direct lines of wise in Massachusetts only 91,000 back to fight the same day and authority through the department, Democratic opponent, Attorney ballots were returned out of 144,000 later became a squad leader. General Roy McKittrick. 26-37 Draft Seen relieving the undersecretary and sent out. Ohio mailed 258,333 bal- secretary of many details. lots and received 164,472. As Manpower Aid Ballots Canvassed Separately New Congress Will Get Bill Women Riot in Store, In the seven states where the "WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Man- Butter, Sugar Vanish military votes were canvassed se- To Consolidate Army, Navy power officials expressed today that parately, the Times tabulated the tighter draft regulations, due this WATERTOWN, N.Y., Dec. 11. war ballot results as follows: WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (ANS). week, will "go a long way" toward which would require every able- bolstering the war labor force, the —William R. Navarra, chain- ARKANSAS: -Roosevelt, 9,480; Dewey, —This is the last week of the 78th bodied youth to take a year of store manager, found out about 3,140; COLORADO: Roosevelt, 13,265; Associated Press reported. Dewey, 13,066; MARYLAND: Roosevelt, Congress—it hopes. The legislators military training in peacetime and women when nearly 200 of them The most important result of 21,317; Dewey, 13,231; NEW JERSEY: plan to recess Dec. 18 for the holi- to enter the reserve subject to James F. Byrnes' directive to Se-i staged a two-hour riot in his Roosevelt, 95,581; Dewey, 64,748; OKLA- active duty in case of emergency lective Service, they said, will be an store, cleaning out all the butter HOMA: Roosevelt, 21,091; Dewey, 13,511; days. However the real threat to Con- and sugar. PENNSYLVANIA: Rooseevlt, 145,098; De- A major task is forecast for the appreciable cut in the huge labor wey, 106,534; RHODE ISLAND: Roosevelt, gress's hope of adjourning is the It started when one woman new congress, which will convene turnover that has been the main 15,800; Dewey, 7,000. expected veto by President Roose- problem in lagging war production.' walked out with two pounds of after the first of the year. That velt of the Social Security tax bill At the same time, Byrnes' "pro- butter, ignoring the half-pound task, the first direct step toward which would freeze taxes at one Butt Shortage Delays Ships duce or fight" ultimatum was viewf quota. Ladies yelled, slugged consolidating the Army and Navy percent. The veto is foreseen in ed in Washington as marking his and provisioned themselves. BOSTON, Dec. 11.—Several coast- by legislation, would bring about spite of Senate endorsement and assumption of full policy control One shopper fell into a crate of wise vessels have been delayed and the establishment of joint chiefs passage by the House yesterday eggs, smashing 15 dozen. The a number of merchant seamen of staff under the provisions of a with a vote of 262-72. over the home front effort. Byrnes' weekend instructions W one other man there, Navarra refused to sail until assured of bill introduced in the House by Most legislators say that neither said, grabbed some sugar and "enough smokes," according to Chairman May (Dem., Ky.), of the increase the drafting of men ZS House nor Senate can muster through 37 "who are not now doing escaped. Navarra won't prose- Harrington Pike, port representative Military Affairs committee, and enough strength to override the cute, as he doesn't know whom of the War Shipping Administra- Chairman Vinson (Dem., Ga.), of their part to contribute to the war veto. In that event the tax would a to sue. tion. He said he had "asked the Naval committee. automatically step up to two per- effort'' are viewed principally, as Washington to try to do something." May has introduced another bill, cent on Jan. 1. club over war workers to keep thenj at their lathes and benches, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 5 Giants Crush Redskins, 31-0, For East Title WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. —The New York Giants captured the championship of the Eastern Div- ision of the National Football League by routing the Washington Redskins, 31-0, before 35,540 fans here yesterday. The Giants will meet the Green Bay Packers, West- ern Division champs, next Sunday at New York. In the first period, the Giants scored two touchdowns, both at- tributable to fumbles by Sammy Baugh. FrarJkr Cope recovered one on the 'Skins 39. Three minutes m later Arnie Herber shot a bullet pass to Ward Cuff, who stepped across from two yards WM out. Baugh 111 fumbled on his own 15 shortly afterward and Herber pitched a strike to Frank Arnie Herber Liebel in the end zone. With 35 seconds remaining in the third period, Herber shot another touchdown pass to Liebel, who stepped off 20 yards to the goal line. Early in the fourth quarter, Cuff booted a field goal to put the Giants ahead, 24-0. Just before the final whistle, Guard Charley Avedisian intercepted a Baugh pass to score and Ken Strong kicked his fourth straight extra point. Eagles Trip Rams, 26-13 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11.—The Philadelphia-Eagles closed their football season with a 26-13 victory over the Cleveland Rams today, thus clinching second place in the Eastern Division. The Eagles lost only to the Chicago Bears this year and played ties with the Giants and Redskins. Landis Gets Niche Steve Van Buren, Jack Hinkle, AP's Service All-America Randy Eleven Ben Kish and Ernie Steele ripped In 'Hall of Fame' off touchdowns for the Eagles, Meets a Tough Competitor while Lou Zontini and Ray Hamil- NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The Rips 4th AAF ton scored for the Rams, the lat- late Kenesaw M. Landis, high ter running 61 yards after grab- commissioner of baseball from - By Paul Horowitz LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—Ran- bing a short pass from Albie Reisz. 1921 to 1944, was elected unanim- dolph Field's Ramblers had too Statistics: ously to Baseball's Hall of The 1944 Service All-America team is released today much for a tricky Fourth AAF GIANTS SKINS football team of March Field yes- First Downs 6 17 Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., by the Associated Press. There was a long story with the Yards Gained, rushing 107 . 123 today. terday and walked off with a 20-7 Passes Attempted 6 49 The committee also voted to pictures above, extolling the players and their glittering decision before 50,000 fans. Passes Completed 3 20 Elmer Madarik scored for the Yards Gained, passing 77 178 erect a Landis Memorial monu- performances this season. We Penalized 85 60 ment at Cooperstown. Ramblers in the first period, Ken chucked it in the wast,e basket, for wounded in France. They'll do for Holley in the second and Johnny the pictures tell the story. We'll our team. Posthumous places go to Clint Goodyear took a 20-yard pass from Natio nalFootballLeague take the AP's word for it that Castleberry, ex-Georgia Tech, co- Bill Dudley for a fourth-period tal- Final Standings Red Wings Nip they're the best footballers in the pilot in a B26 shot down in the ly. Indian Jack Jacobs pitched a States. This is another story. Mediterranean; Mike Sweeney, short payoff pass to Gene Meeks EASTERN DIVISION It's the tale" of another All-Amer- for the loser's only score in the W L T Pts OP Bruins on Ice Texas end; Joe Hillenbrand, Pur- second perior' New York 6 1 1 206 75 ican Service team, the stars who due and Wilmeth Sidah-Singh, Sy- Philadelphia .7 1 2 267 131 threw the Japs and Germans for racuse passer-extraordinary, a fight- Washington... 6 3 1 169 180 DETROIT, Dec. 11.—The Detroit great losses and gained more ground Fort Pierce Perfect Boston 2 8 0 82 233 er pilot who didnt get a chance to Brooklyn 0 10 0 69 166 Red Wings last night defeated the than all the backs in all the col- fight. His plane dropped into Lake FORT PIERCE, Fla., Dec. 11.— WESTERN DIVISION Boston Bruins, 7-6, in a wild game leges in the States. It's an all- Michigan during a practice flight. The Naval Amphibious Training W L T Pts OP that was tied three times. time, All-Service team. Eddie Berlinski, former North Base football team hammered its Green Bay.... 8 2 0 238 HI The Bruneteau brothers, Eddie Detroit 6 3 1 216 1S1 Britt Cited Three Times Carolina State quarterback, was way to a perfect season by defeat- Chicago 6 3 1 258 172 and Mud, each scored twice for the There's Maurice "Footsy" Britt, captured by the Nazis in Africa ing the Keesler Field Fliers, 34-7, Cleveland ..... 4 6 0 188 223 Wings, Steve Wochy getting the here yesterday. Bill Daley, former Card-Pitts .... 0 10 0 108 329 ex-Arkansas and Detroit Lions' end, and now is a PW in Germany. He payoff goal in the final minutes. Third Division officer, who received gave us plenty of pleasant moments Minnesota and Michigan star back, NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The Chi- the Silver Star for heroism at Sa- with the broken field running. was the big noise with two touch- Ferrier, Harrison cago Blackhawks and New York lerno, the Medal of Honor for re- He'll do, too. downs, one on a 76-yard run. pulsing a Nazi counter-attack prac- Wanna coach? It's Wallace Rangers played a 1-1 tie before Gremlins Upset Bombers Cash In on Golf 14,124 spectators here last night. tically singlehanded at Mt. Rotund Wade, Col., FA, with the Third Fido Purpur's goal on a pass from and the DSC for heroism at Anzio, Army "somewhere in Germany." ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 11.—The i OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 11.—Sgt. Curly Dahlstron in the first period where he lost his right arm at the He coached Duke's Rose Bowl Third AAF Gremlins scored a 14-7 Jim Ferrier, former Australian put the Hawks ahead, but the Ran- elbow. teams of 1939 and 1942. upset victory over the Second AAF golf champion, now an American gers knotted the score with 11 Cited for heroism recently in the Superbombers yesterday. Charley citizen, won the Oakland Open minutes gone in the second on Leyte jungles was Charles R. Rose Bowl Hero Hurt Trippi, ex-Georgia ace, passed to Golf Tournament yesterday with a Ab DeMarco's goal. "Monk" Meyer, 155-pound chunk of LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—George both touchdowns and personally score of 277. He started the tour- dynamite with Army in 1936. He'll Callana, Southern California half- ground out 117 yards through the ney with a 72, but settled down to do for a backfield post. And George back who caught two touchdown Bombers' line. three straight 68s to top Ky La- Hockey Standings Franck, ex-Minnesota All-America passes in the Rose Bowl last New foon by one stroke and grab off whose Corsair fighter was shot Year's Day, suffered a knee injury Davis 'Player of Year' National League down near Jap-held Wotje Atoll, in the California game and doctors *1,600 in War Bonds as first prize. W L T Pts G OG said he probably would not play PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10.—Glenn Montreal 11 4 1 23 59 38 where he was rescued after floating Davis, Army's All-America back, MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 11. — S/Sgt. Toronto 10 6 0 20 63 55 for hours in the Pacific. against Tennessee in the coming was chosen the "football player of Detroit 9 4 2 20 72 50 Pasadena classic. Dutch Harrison, AAF, captured the Remember Paul Lillis, captain the year" by the Maxwell Memorial Miami Open Golf title yesterday, Boston ...... 7 9 1 IS 70 76 and tackle of the 1941 Notre Dame New York..;.= 2 8 4 8 45 66 Hockey Player Discharged Football Committee. He will re- nosing out Henry Picard by one Chicago 2 10 2 « 50 7* team. He was wounded in the ceive the Maxwell Trophy at the stroke to gain $2,500 first-prize American League Battle of the Admiralty Islands. WINNIPEG, Dec. 11.—Jack Stew- annual banquet here January 18th. money,- His 72-hole total was 274 Abe Shirer, tackle on Tennessee's art, former Detroit Red Wings' and he shot a 69 in the final round. Sunday's Results Rose, Orange and Sugar Bowl defenseman, has been honorably More GI Grid Results Providence 5, Pittsburgh *. teams; and Jim Gaffney, 1936 Har- discharged by the Canadian Air Third place went to Johnny Re- Buffalo 7, St. Louis 1. Ninth ADC 7, 409th Bomb Gronp 0. vowa. Indianapolis 6, Hershey 1. vard guard and captain. Both were Force, tt was announced today. 217th Gen. Hosp. 14, Com Z «. Page 6 THE STARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 An Editorial A Salute to the People

mistreated, while the rest of us, He Means Business who were not racial minorities or We who have been sweatin' the small nations, were apparently to flak out for ever so long are be- go unscathed. ginning to wonder if this war is a We stood by while others were game or is it the grim task of re- vilified and oppressed long before ducing the last German, man, wo- the shooting was started. We came man and child, to complete sur- to accept that international im- render, j^et's get tough and here morality, and were kept mentally is one simple way o* accomplishing disarmed for the next step, the that end: military war. Then, lacking suf- The Germans in 1940 paralyzed ficient arms, we saw that we could French communications and trans- be victims, too, the same as the portation by strafing the highways others. which were cluttered with French There's your pattern for the civilian evacuees. Why can't we next war—allowing bullying of the issue an ultimatum to all German weak or defenseless'and tolerating civilians in an area five miles evil, only to become victims our- ahead of our lines to the effect selves. Are we going to fall for that any and all civilians will be another such buildup by Germany? shot on sight after a specified tim= Maybe, besides keeping an inter- limit? This would result in: (1) national force to strike down mili- no fraternization, as there would tary aggression, we ought to have be no Germans as we advanced, an international intelligence to HIS Theater of ours is host to sixteen We like that system so much, we're fight- (2) paralysis of all highways for protect minority nations and races ing to keep it. th-i use of the German army be- against propaganda and fifth co- T Congressmen and one Congress- cause of civilian evacuees, (3) re- lumn ism directed from a central woman. The other day they visited Gen- We like it so well we'd like to say how move all difficulties and expenses source.—Pvt. M.K„ AAA. eral Ike's advance headquarters. Ike told glad we are to have our Congressmen here in as far as our having to furnish * ■ * * them he thought combat pay should be men and transportation to evacu Great Injustice among us. Since all the home folks can't ate German civilians, and (4) re- given to medics serving, with fighting bat- come over, we're glad to greet their—and In the NOT. 24 B-Bag, 1 duce to a great degree possibilities noticed that Sgt. Edwin A. Cole talions. our—representatives. of snipers and saboteurs. was reduced to private, while There in a nutshell is a classic example This seems like good Yankee com- hospitalized for wounds re- We want them to see where we're fight- mon sense. -Sherman did it, why of democracy at work. It wasn't Von ceived in action, "because at ing, how we're doing, what we're lacking can't we???—Major Haynie S. Rundstedt asking Hitler. It wasn't Von his long absence." Bastian. Bock phoning Himmler. It was Ike Eisen- We'd like them to learn first hand what AR 615-5 (30 June 1943) par. war is like. * * * 14 (1) says: "A non-commis- hower talking things over with represen- Truck Tip sioned officer will not be re- tatives of the people of the United States. We'd like every American soldier who duced because of absence due I have heard lots of Joes cuss Whether it's medics getting combat pay sees them to cheer them. They are the to sickness in line of duty." their trucks when they are If the Sgt. will notify an of- —or the U.S. declaring war—or Congress American people. They remind us that crawling up hills. Most o* the ficer in the Inspector General's framing a GI bill of rights—it's not the the people and the Army are one and indi- time there's mud in the ex- Department of his division, I haust pipe. Just hammer it a will or whim of an individual. It's a matter visible. And that George Washington hit am sure that action will be few times, race your motor and which affects the people—and on which the nail on thejigad when he said—"When taken to reinstate him, with see the difference.—Pfc George no loss in pay or time in grade. thejpeople, through their elected represen- we assumed the role of soldier we did not (Red Ball) Casbajol. tatives, have the final word. lay aside the role of citizen." * * * * . * * Road Congestion We Hope Perhaps a reminder in your The only traffic encountered on column Would start the fellows to the front lines is usually cross- SOMEWHERE writing to their old mail clerk, who country. The only traffic conges- would forward that much-wanted tions are usually knocked out mail to the proper owner.—Mail Jerries. All this is fine and good, Clerk. EUROPE and the way it should be. Why, * * * when we are fortunate enough to Maj. Gen. Rose Decorated action during tin. division's smash cent prisoners have forsaken be drawn off the front lines for a Grateful across Belgium in ten days. the time-honored "Kamerad" Orchids to the Fifth Armored hurried trip to the rear installations A" general who stayed with the for a new one—"life, Boy Div. What they did may not mean * * * for mail, supplies, etc., are we held most advanced elements of his com- Scout." up in traffic jam3 caused by men much to others, but it meant an Plenty of Reason to Crow awful lot to me. As I was passing mand to direct their attack per- # * * using the already inadequate road "Elmer" has something to their moving convoy with a load of sonally, and who assisted in the facilities for close order drill and crow about. He lived through Jeep Knocks Down 88 the like? steel beams on my truck near Bel- evacuation of wounded, recently Thanksgiving. Elmer is a The jeep was going one way and It isn't the fellows' fault. Some gium, the drivers and others in the was awarded a DSC. rooster and the mascot of the the 88 shell was traveling in the of these guys have been pulled off convoy—including a major—would He is Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, 248th Eng. Bn. A field artil- opposite direction. They met head wave to me on blind curves and commander of the Third Armored the front lines for rest periods, and lery battalion lured him away on. they deserve the rest rather than hills to help me pass. Thanks a Div. and three-time Silver Star from the motor pool parts The shell split the bumper, ex- a continuation of training. million.—CpL J. C. Walker, Engrs. winner. The DSC was issued for his truck, planning on an extra ploded under the vehicle and knock- If you just have to make a treat for Thanksgiving dinner, training schedule, and have to in- but the Engineers found him clude close order drill in order to in time to save him from the fiU it, keep them off the roads.— block. Delayed - TD* . * * * * * We Stood By 5 Put Out on 1 Pitch The own looked like a good Most of the talk and writing about preventing future wars seem spot to set up a command post for to assume that the next war will their Sixth Armored Div. unit, but start with a bomb explosion or it was still held by German tanks some other military attack. Before and infantry. ed off all four wheels. The passen- Capt. H. E. Wortsmith, of North military weapons were ever used gers, 2/Lt. Oliver J. Bussen, of St. Little Rock, Ark., went forward on in World War II, there was a dif- Louis, Mo.; S/Sgt. Andrew Cox, of ferent kind of fwar, the war of foot, spotted two enemy tanks and Pittsburgh, Penna., and T/4 Carl thoughts, attitudes, and interna- called up tank destroyers which Hoffman, of Crestline, Ohio, were tional morals. Berlin and Tokyo knocked out both. When Wort- uninjured. They hitchhiked back were directing their international smith entered the town with the to their 305th Engrs. headquarters infantry, he saw some Germans run propaganda and fifth-column ma- with the 80th Inf. Div. chines to get us to take the attitude into the cellar of a house. Wort- * * * that their victims, Poles, Czechs, smith picked up a rock, threw lt Jews, etc., should be bullied and in the cellar and yelled "grenade". New Anti-Yank Gun Two Nazi officers and three EMs H i 11 e r*s newest "People's walked out with hands raised. THE STARS AND STRIPES Army" weapon is the Yl—or, as the Yank kids call it, a sling- Printed at the New York Herald #.. * * Tribune plant, 21 rue de Berri, Paris, shot. for the U.S. armed forces under aus- Scout's Honor? Pvt. Kurt E. Marcus, of New pices of the Information and Educa- Armored infantrymen of the York City and the 35th Inf. tion Division, Special and Informa- Third Army's Tenth Armored tion Services, ETODSA. Tel.: ELYsees Div., says: "The little Kraut 40-58, 41-49. Div. believe that either the soldier who had the slingshot Contents passed by the O.S. Army Volkssturm is recruiting from in his pocket claimed he was and Navy censors. Entered as second the cradle or the Germans are class matter, Mar. 15, 1943, at the 18, but he looked about 14. He post office, New York, N.Y„ under getting more original in sur- seemed very embarrassed when the act of Mar. J. 1878. rendering. Men of C Co., 54th I asked him what he used it Vol. X, No. 138 "It's only to be attracted by eiwies! Armored Inf. Bn., sag their re- for."? Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 7

Li'I Abner By Courtesy at United Features By Al Capp

I'LL TAKE THAT BET.1^ I'LL DIE HAPPY - MISSED.'.'! WINNING A WAGER AH VvON J FROM YOU rr- AS USUAL?! HERE GOES.?*/ Booby Trap. "Oh, come on. buddy, sit in for a few hands. We only play for low stakes." * • « Last Straw Department. T/4 John B. Galk) has struggled to make good meals out of 'most every type of ration the Army has—and suc- ceeded. But this week they stumped him. He received for rations for the men a supply of Gerbers Baby Pood • » • GI Observation. The Man in the Moon isn't half as Interesting as Terry And The Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff the Lady in the Sun.

* * • t Today's Daffynition. Allottment: An arrangement whereby the government guarantees that some of a serviceman's pay is spent on the woman entitled to it.

Overheard in the Blackout. "Some girls are not afraid of mice •—others have pretty legs." • • • A WAC once said her boy friend was like the fourth man in a conga

Dick Tracy By Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Syndicate Inc. By Chester Gould

WHAT DID I TELL I TELL VOU, SHAKV, / EXPLAIN VOU, VOU DOUBTING WE'VE FOUND (YOURSELVES,! TWE SCENE: SNOWPLAKE'S FIRST .THOMASES.' HISS-SS-SS' BRAVO PERFORMANCE WITH VITAMIN HER / WE COULDN'TV POOLS ' BRAVO MISS HER. HER PLINTWEART IN'LOVES AFIRE" NAME'S IN LETTERS LISTEN TO THAT TTWEV WON'T, THAT HIGH ' APPLAUSE. SHE'S) LET HER line. You know—"one, two, three, A SENSATION/ /LEAVE THE jerk!" • • • ^T^lfWl STAGE. , Meanest Man in the World. A Vancouver citizen was bowled over by a speeding car. The driver then stopped, ran back, stole the guy's wallet and sped away. • • • Afterthought. Some guys have no respect for age unless it's bottled. By Courtesy of United Features. * * * Abbie an' Slates By Raeburn Van Buren This comes under our Anglo- FOP IN CI2A0TOEE COZNEZG GETS ^THE R.EUg-PE-l>,'g."A "SMALL HOTEL WHAT A MAGNI- American Relations Dep't. The j A LETTER FSOM BECKY IN LONDON] FICENT VOICE/.'.'.' British tar and the American gob AH,V£G, AAAM'SELLE? WHOEVER" THAT /WAN were discussing their respective yOUK WEACXSJUAKTEK INFOeMK? IS COULD BE A aircraft carriers, "rlow fast are WE THAT XXJ WOULD BE BILLETED GREAT STAR".' WHAT rS they?" asked the tar. "To tell you HERE.' youz eocrn A GLORIOUS VOCE LIKE THAT DOING-HIDDEN IN the truth, I don't know," answered EET EE'S, KEADV'/ AN O30CUKE UTTLS what must have been a Texan. HOTEL IN "We've never really opened them up. PARIS 7 All they've been required to do so far is to keep up with the planes."

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FOUND DENTIFICATION BRACELETS Belonging I to:' P. D. Haas by Capt. A. W. Coap- lan; Joseph W. Hoover. 35551879. by H. G. Belsheim; Lloyd L Bradford. 0208543. by Pvt. Wm. B. Wikins; Joseph V. Cerro, 33551481. by Sgt. W. F. Greenplat; Lt. Raymond Jenkins. 0-745690. by Capt. W. T Ooogan; J C. Barnes, by Pic Joseph Zgliczynski. ALLETS belonging to: Sgt. Lawrence W A. Giemza by Lt. Eugene P. Powers: Pvt. Edward Griffith by Capt. Edgai C. Ryon; Cpl. Walter L. Hughey t>y Cpl Wil- liam O. Willis: Pfc Mahlon Kauffman by Pfc James G. Spatol: Edward George Russell, Springfield. Mo. by Maj. E. A. Sheridan: T/5 George P. Sweeney by Lt. Jay E. Swearingen. ETTER written "Mon. eve.. July 3," L enclosing photo of wife and daughter Barbara Jean (who looks about a year old). Sgt. F. Tarczv. APOs WANTED VT. Dan D. Lewand. 39566359; Lt. Nor- P ris C. McGowan, Shreveport, La.; Sgt. Thad. Newman, St. John. Utah; Cpl. De- wayne Newman, St. John. Utah; Clenton Rhodes, Swansboro. N.C.: Cpl. Ross Rus- sell, St. John. Utah: Capt. Jacob M. Wil- By Courtesy of King Features Syndicate liams, Monette. Ark. Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES ■ Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1944 6 Days of Hell, She Sings, Too iFrance Faces Strange Setting, Familiar Joes And on the 7th Most Difficult They Rested... Winter of War

By Bill Barton By one of the strange quirks of Stars and Stripes Staff Writer warfare, France will suffer more in WITH SECOND ARMORED DIV. IN GERMANY.—For six days of the first winter of liberation under hell, men of the 41st Armored Int. the Allies than during any of the Regt. fought for yardage through previous four winters under Nazi the mud and rain on the Ninth domination, the Associated Press Army front. On the seventh day they found rest. reports. The first day, they followed tanks There have been some improve- over flat open ground raked by Nazi ments since the flight of the Ger- heavy artillery, mortar and small- mans but living conditions nowhere arms fire to take a certain village approach the relatively com- 1,000 yards from their jump-off po- fortable months before D-Day. sition. With transport facilities and food Dig In With CP- and coal-supply lines disrupted, the That night they dug in with the French face the worst winter since Combat troops in the snow and bitter cold of the Western Front will CP in the captured village. On the the war of 1870. recognize the sprawled positions and facial expressions of these in- second day, German artillery and Franc Poses Question fantrymen under fire half a world away, dodging Jap machine-gun anti-tank guns, positioned on high fire on Leyte Island, now almost completely occupied. ground, picked off the American Part of the Frenchman's trouble tanks which had led the doughs in. is that, even though his pockets The infantry was then on its own. may frequently bulge with franc Then, wave after wave of Wehr- notes, he never knows how much Port of Ormoc Two Key Cities macht charged the village, only to this money will be worth tomorrow. be cut down by automatic and In addition, bombings and sabotage small-arms fire. T/Sgt. Bill B. and removal to the Reich have cut Seized by U.S. Fall to Yanks Klosky, of Chicago, dodged from deep holes in his country's industrial capacity, and many of the (Continued from Page 1) hole to hole, passing out the dwind- (Continued from Page 1) ling stocks of ammunition. most skilled technicians were de- phasizing the government's plea ply dumps. Heavy bombers, mean- Later, it was decided that the vil- ported by the Germans. for increased war production. The nation's ports, railroads, while, struck at Jap shipping and lage was untenable, and while rifle- Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' men fired clip after clip, the ma- bridges, marshalling yards, rolling airports in the Southwest Pacific. Tokyo Radio yesterday reported First Army men pushed along both chine guns pulled out. stock and locomotives have been sides of the Aachen-Cologne super- the victims of every means of de- that B29s had made their fifth Entrench in Orchard straight attack on the Jap capital highway. They captured the town struction at war's command. What of Dorn and Echtz, a village near The night of the second day, the escaped or has now been rejuven- on Sunday. This report was not doughs entrenched in a little orchard confirmed by any U.S. source. the Roer, and entered the western ated is used for urgent military outskirts of Merken, 1,500 yards and for three days wallowed in the transport—all of which means from the river. rain-filled foxholes while Nazi 88s France must freeze, must eat Six More Jap Admirals Die shelled their positions. No move- Counter-attacks Repulsed meagerly and must attempt to run NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (ANS).— ment was possible during the day- factories and mills on a fraction Southward, U.S. Third Army men light. Deaths of six Japanese admirals of the power that is needed. and another army general were beat off 11 counterattacks in At night, the wounded were evacu- reported today by Domei News 24 hours against their bridgeheads ated by Pfc Arlon P. Dick, of Lupins are very lovely "flowers, Agency, boosting the total reported over the Saar at Saarlautern and Denney, Ky.; Sgt. Virgil Jones of appearing in the early spring dead by Tokyo to 73 admirals since Dillingen. Beaumont, Tex.; Pvt. Raymond In- in delicate shades of baby blue. Bradley.. . One was made by 85 Nazi fana- fante, of Brooklyn; Pfc John W. We figure it doesn't make much May 7 and 18 generals since May (Continued tram Page 1) 23. tics who charged wildly, yelling Morris, of Lorain, O; Pfc George difference what we say down "Heil Hitler," until they were wiped E. Dehn, of Clinton, Mo.; Pfc Fran- here. Who reads this anyway The announcement followed by 48 battle. It is equally important that hours an announcement by Yoko- out by doughs of the 90th Division's cis Moore, of Rice Station, Ky.; after the way blonde Miss you complete the victory over Nazi suka naval station of the deaths 359th Regiment. Pfc Harold L. Groesbeck, of Lan- Martha Tilton, former soloist ideas." of 13 other admirals. In Holland, floodwaters released sing, Mich., and Pfc Malcom O. with Benny Goodman, is looking when the Germans breached the Jones, of Marydell, Ky. out of the picture? Ah, lupins. He continued, "You personally must prove to the German people lower Rhine dykes between Nijme- On the sixth day, they counter- that their acceptance of Nazi leader- gen and Arnhem, restricted action attacked the high-ground positions New Ration Authorized ship is responsible for their defeat 1,600 Heavies on the British-Canadian front to from which the artillery fire had and that it has earned for. them patrolling, Associated Press front come. That night, the relief force To Help WACs Reduce the distrust of the rest of the reports said. arrived and the 41st Rgt. moved -world." Hit Frankfurt Germans Digging In back to rest billets. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (ANS). The seven special orders are; South of this front, U.S. Ninth —Army has authorized special low 1. To remember always that Ger- (Continued from Page 1) Army artillery and mortars dueled calorie balanced rations to help many, though conquered, is still a that another force of British heavy- with enemy guns. Southeast of Ju- Budapest Nazis WACs reduce, warning that "die- dangerous enemy nation. 2. Never weights had crossed the Channel, lich, Ninth Army men saw Ger- tary habits acquired in training to trust Germans, collectively or apparently heading for the third mans digging in at Hambach. may persist, causing undesirable individually. 3. To defeat German raid on Germany within a seven- In the Saar Basin, Nazis have AreReinforced o b e s i t y," the Army and Navy efforts to poison thoughts or in- hour period. Berlin radio reported been pouring 6,000 shells a day on Journal disclosed today in a WD fluence attitude. 4. To avoid acts bombers over Hanover and Bruns- the Saarlautern and Dillingen (Continued from Page 1) table of "ideal weights." of violence, except when required wick, and the Hamburg radio went bridgeheads. Fighting was savage in Malinovsky's troops are moving The table says that a WAC five by* military necessity. 5. To com- off the air. Saarlautern where the enemy was along the highway that runs down feet two inches tall with a small mand the respect of the German Incomplete reports from the Ninth holding out in a brickyard in the the Danube bank and have al- frame should weigh 111 to 119 people for the soldiers, for the Air Force revealed that 332 fighter- Roden suburb. Men of the 377th most reached the suburb of Ujpest pounds. Medium frames of the United States, and for the Allied bomber sorties were made yester- Rgt. who fought b'tterly for two from which it would be possible to same height may tip the scales at cause. 6. Never to associate with day against marshalling yards and city blocks captured a big hotel, in stage a decisive thrust into the city. 118 to 126, while large frame gals Germans. 7. To be fair, but firm troop concentrations on the First which they fought a pitched battle The Russians announced that in may go as high as 136. with Germans. and Ninth Army fronts. for the ballroom, according to The four days they had captured 5,600 Stars and Stripes front reports. prisoners, most of them Hungarians who had surrendered voluntarily. Awards for Patton, Hodges The Long and the Short of It WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (ANS). —Lt. Gens. Patton and Hodges, Bond Given Orphan commanders of the Third and First By Dad's Outfit American Armies, respectively, have 6-Foot-5 GI, in First Battle, Little Man Who Wasn't There been awarded Oak Leaf Clusters for their Distinguished Service Me- ATLANTA, Dec. 11 (ANS).— Proves He's 'Man to Look Up To' Wrote Six Letters—Now He Is dals. Both awards, the War De- Jefferson Lamar Banks Jr. was partment announced, were for their seven weeks old yesterday and WITH FIFTH INF. DIV. FORT SHERIDAN, 111., Dec. 11 (UP). leadership in the campaigns in he received a $100 war bond VT. Dale Rex, of Randolph, Utah, Is six feet five took five letters to President Roosevelt and one France last summer. from the boys his dad fought inches tall. His buddies used to kid him about Fto Gen. Henry H. Arnold to convert Stanley C. with in France. P being a soldier one could look up to. Salzenstein, 19, into Pvt. Stanley C. Salzenstein, the British Reinforcements Lamar's father was killed in In one of his first combat actions. Rex took over shortest man in the service. action Aug. 23. Lamar was born a machine gunner's position when the gunner be- Salzenstein, only four feet 10 1/2 inches tall, is Oct. 12. The boys of a head- Oppose Greek Rebels came a casualty. The Germans were attacking the an inch and one half under the Army's minimum. quarters battery of field artillery battalion beachhead on the east bank of the Moselle His first letter asking admission to the Air Force with whom Lamar Senior fought ATHENS, Dec. 11 (AP) .—British with fixed bayonets. They were coming on in waves was sent to Gen. Arnold, who turned him down. reinforcments were arriving today had looked forward to the baby's Stanley then wrote to the President and his first arrival. When they learned of across a field. to oppose an estimated 10,000 to It went on for about 60 hours, u... the battalion four letters were referred to the War Department. 15,000 members of the ELAS in-the it they collected $100 and sent In each case officials agreed with Gen. Arnold—that it to Mrs. Catherine Banks, was forced to evacuate because of lcsrss. battle for Athens. mother of the youngster, and Rex took off his clothes and wrapped them around Stanley was too short. A British spokesman said that asked her to buy a War Bond a wounded soldier who was lying on the ground, His sixth letter was referred to the Illinois Selec- the British had not yet "gone all for him. waiting for a litter. Then the private swam to the tive Service headquarters with a note that Salzen- out" in fighting. He expressed "May his future be one to opposite bank to find a landing place for withdraw- stein be inducted if he passed other physical tests. doubt that the ELAS would be bring credit upon his father's ing troops. He did and is now stationed at Fort Sheridan, 'the able to call up any more forces memory," they wrote. He saved a GI from drowning and has been re- same post where his father, Adolf, served in World since these were required else- commended for an award. War I. where.