3Rd Forces New Saar Crossings

SAME OLD ADDRESS > MAN SPRICHT DEUTSCH CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Under »Class Notes,« the current Harvard Alumni THE ST; TRIPES Wo ist Ihr Fiihrershein? Bulletin reports: »1904—Franklin D. Vo ist Eer Fewrershain? Roosevelt. No change of address.« Dally Newspaper of «.$. Armed forces in the European Theater of OperatfeM Where is your driver license? ONE FRANC TEN PFENNIG

yolume 1, Number 4 New York — STRASBOURG — Paris Thursday, December 7, 1944 After Dec. 7, 1941 - - Bataan Saarbrucken Reported on Fire; 3rd Forces New Saar Crossings

Hagenau Boche New Ammo Issue Will Be Americans Seize Fights Hard to Packed in Sealed Tin Cans Three Quarters BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 7,— A new container to protect ammuni- Block U. S. 7th tion against all k i n d s of climate Of Saargemund conditions has been released by the By ED CLARK Remington Arms Company and ap- The U. S. 3rd Army, rushing into Stars and Stripes Staff Writer proved by the War Department. Germany's rich industrial Saar region ADVANCED 6TH ARMY GROUP The new ammunition will be and already fighting in the outer de- HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 7—The U. S. canned and vacuum-sealed just rike fenses of the Siegfried Line above 7th Army today scored a general ad- the îttle sardine, and will be just Saarlautern, forced three more cross- vance of three miles on the western as easy to get out. The tins will ings of the Saar River yesterday from slopes of the Lower Vosges, but was have small knobs on their lids which Saarlautern te the industrial city of held to limited gains in the northern identify the contents; they mil be Merzig, 13 miles northwest. Alsatian Plain where the Germans painted the old army color—olive~ At the same time, elements of the continued to resist American pressure drab—and a key will be stuck on 80th Infantry and 6th Armored Divi- stiffly in the Hagenau sector. the side of the can for opening. sions threw the Germans out of two- Meeting only light and scattered The new container comes equipped thirds of the mining town of Saar- opposition, and finding several pre- with a handle for carrying. Fully gemund, 12 miles southeast of Saar- Three years ago today, Dec 7, 1991, the Japanese Empire declared war pared roadblocks undefended, dough- loaded, with 800-30 caliber carbine brucken on the French side of the against the United States and Great Britain, and, before the declaration reached feet took over three small villages, cartridges or 240 cartridges 'of regu- border. The Yanks continued their Washington, the Japanese made their infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the most northerly of which was But- lar 30 caliber bullets, or 150-50 cali- fierce shelling of Saarbrucken itself Hawaii, the Philippines and other American possessions in the Pacific. ten, about six miles northeast of per shells this container will weigh from six miles away. Saarbrucken, When the enemy's 21 torpedo planes, 48 dive bombers and 36 heavy bombers Sarre-Union. approximately 25 pounds* capital and largest city of the Saar had completed their devilish work, America lay critically wounded, stunned, Basin—a sort of Pittsburgh—was re- and like a strong man of fine character, cried from within—where it hurts. In the rugged hill country farther east, equally light resistance was en- ported in flames. ~~ 1 ' f The sons of the Rising Sun had at- Latest dispatches this morning said tacked 86 U. S. vessels—eight | battle- countered as the Americans captured another cluster of small towns, in- UK Troops Die Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's forces held ships, seven cruisers, 25 destroyers and a 30-mile front along the Saar River, Courtmartial of five submarines. Sunk or put out of cluding the village of Goetzenbruck, about four miles north of Wingen. from Merzig down into Lorraine. One commission were five battleships—the In Greek Fight; of his units' held a bridgehead two Arizona (later to rise again and play On the northern Alsatian Plain, northwest of Hagenau, the Germans and a half miles opposite Merzig, 23 Kimmel, Short a vital role in the invasion of South- miles northwest of Saarbrucken, ern France)}1 the Oklahoma, California, were still putting up a stiff fight for Spitfires Attack every inch of ground: Continuing to against heavy small-arms fire. Tanks, Nevada and West Virginia. however, were fighting toward them. Apparently Out The destroyers, were the Cassin, contest bitterly U. S. possession of The frontal assault on Saarbrucken Shaw and Downes; also the mine Mertzwiller, the enemy hurled more ATHENS, Dec. 7—Bitter street fight- was making good progress, too, as ar- layer Oglala, and the target ship, than 600 shells into the town, during ing continued here yesterday with WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Secretary of a hellish 60 minutes this morning. British troops and Greek regulars on mored spearheads reached the Saar the Navy James V. Forrestal and Secre- Utah. Damaged—the battleships Penn- at two points five miles south of the sylvania, Maryland and Tennessee; The enemy also counterattacked the one side and members of three Greek tary of War Henry L. Stimson, an- leftist political parties and guerrilla city. Violent tank battles were re- nounced here that êvidence given at the cruisers Helena, Honolulu and American bridgehead across the Zint- ported from Forbach, six miles south- Raleigh; the seaplane tender Curtiss, zel River within Mertzwiller, but were organizations on the other. One corre- the court of inquiry into the Japanese spondent reported the fighting, going east of Saarbrucken on the French ^ attack on Pearl Harbor, ES*K 7, 1641, and her 24 planes., and the repair ship repulsed. On the extreme right of this side of the border. Vessel. All the damaged vessels got front, .the Germans shelled the town into iie third daty, seemed to be the does not warrant and will not support a beginning of a civil war as Greece Elsewhere along the river, the Ger- trial by general court martial^ of any back in service as well as »a num- of Gries, southeast of Hagenau, for bers of the sunk-or-out-of-service the third consecutive day. writhed in political strife. mans were abandoning some positions, Army or Navy officer. The leader of the Greek party failed blowing up at least five bridges be- class. - . French Gain The joint announcements were taken Of the planes on Oahu Island, the yesterday in* his second attempt to hind them. to mean that all charges against Rear Army lost 97 out of'273, including 23 Down on the central part of the form a coalition government, ..which Just six months to the day after Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. bombers; the Navy lost 80 of 202, not Alsatian Plain, in the Selestat-Mul- the leftists have refused to join. tn6 Normandy landings, six Allied Gen. Walter C. Short, Pearl Harbor including 70 damaged. In addition, a house region, the French 1st Army A communique from Maj. Gen. armies were poised at four great river narrowed still further the German Army and Navy commanders at the large floating drydock was damaged, Scobey, British military governor of barriers protecting the Reich — the bulge west of the Rhine, with the cap- time of the sneak Jap attack, will be and damage was inflicted on the Army Greece, said British troops had suf- Rhine, Saar and Roer, In, Germany dropped, military observers in Wash- air bases at Hickam and Wheeler ture of Gumar, three miles east of fered casualties, including some deaths. itself, and the Maas, in eastern Hol- ington said. Fields, and the naval air stations at Ribeauville, and Ostheim, just five The communique said fighting began land. No substantial changes were re- The Navy board of inquiry reported Ford Island- and Kaneohe Bay. miles northeast of the large city of before dawn yesterday when Greek ported yesterday from the U. S. 1st Colmar. however, that errors in judgment and Personnel—Navy and Marine Corps guerrillas attacked government build- and 9th Armies' front along the Roer, lack'of skill in both Washington and ,—2,117 officers and enlisted men were In the High Vosges, General Jean ings guarded by British troops. An- although artillery duels were increas- Hawaii contributed to the tragedy, killed; .960 are still listed as missing, de Lattre de Tassigny's forces have other British platoon was attacked by ing in intensity. while some demands immediately arose and 876 were wounded but survived. advanced beyond the Schlucht Pass, ELAS guerrillas armed with machine Losses on both sides there have been heavy as the 1st and 9th fight for in Congress for a separate investigation. Army^—226 officers, and men were and the main crest line of the moun- guns and grenades, and only the ar- tains. The French have also maintained the Cologne Plain. killed or wounded mortally and rival of British tanks saved the pla- Details Secret close contact along the perimeter of Eight hunderd U. S. Flying Fort- 396 were wounded less seriously. Most toon. Other British troops and armor Secretary Stimson and Navy Secre- the rest of the German positions, resses and Liberators, continuing the of the latter have recovered and re- : cleared the center of Athens and the tary Forrestal said the board reports shelling and heavily damaging their ELAS headquarters. renewed campaign to isolate German could not be released in full until after turned to-duty. troops on the Cologne Plain from their From Dec. 7 to ..April 9th, of the bridges over the Rhine at Ehalampe. RAF Spitfires were reported to have the war for reasons of military secur- strafed a column of guerrillas after (Continued on Page 4) ity. Both secretaries said they intended (Continued on Page 4) Tac Bombs Ahead they refused to call off their march :—:—• r to continue personal investigations. FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE, through the capital. Chairman May (Ky., D.), of the House Dec. 7 — Taking advantage of brief There were many other local en- Military Committee, said the Army re- Russian Spears periods of flying weather, U. S. and gagements throughout the- city as 8th Pushing on port »ends the matter« so far as. he is French fighters and fighter-bombers British troops sought to drive the guer- concerned. yesterday continued their attacks on rillas from the city. The .War and Navy Department an- Push on Vienna enemy transport and communications Scobey charged there was »definite From Ravenna nouncements came after the Senate had ahead of the U. S. 7th and French 1st evidence« that former Germari soldiers unanimously approved and sent to the Armies. were active in the guerrilla ranks. ROME, Dec. 7—Following yesterday's House a joint resolution against ex- MOSCOW, Dec. 7—The two-pronged In a limited number of sorties, 12th The general strike throughout Greece capture of Ravenna, last obstacle to tending the statute of limitations for drive of Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin's TAC P-47 Thunderbolts struck at four eased Off somewhat, with about 600 a clear passage into the Po Valley, cburtmartial proceedings against Ad- 3rd Ukrainian Army through central railyards and ack-ack positions in the dock workers returning to Piraeus, troops of the British 8th Army today miral Kimmel and General Short. Hungary 'made new progress yesterday Speyer area, while French planes In London, Foreign Secretary An- were pressing west from the city and as spearheads 10 miles apart reached the The measure, which was passed by bombed and fired the Lorach railroad thony Eden told Commons the govern- gainjng ground between Ravenna and southern shores of Lake Balaton, the Faenza. Some units remained behind voice vote and without debate, would station in Germany, completely de- ment would debate its Greek policy 50-mile-long lake which guards the stroying three trains. .. Friday. to complete mopping up operations (Continued on Pane 4) approach to the Austrian frontier. and w,ere being aided by Italian pat- W-it.h Red Army troops already on the riots. ' s~ eastA-n shore of the big lake, German • British and Polish troops established forces along the lake were tiedx up a bridgehead across the Lamone River American f asti in a series of pockets which were Five Tokyo-First Airmen barrier southwest of Faenza and were being inethodically wiped out. . moving to encircle the Italian city The western end of the lake is about which guards the west coast approaches Gains on Leyte 50 miles from the Austrian border, Return By Way of Persia to Bologna. , > and a Moscow broadcast said last night Kraut positions along the Lamone that a break-through on both sides of WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — American were said to be offering strong -re- the lake would pose a direct threat to WASHINGTON, Dec. 7— Five of Lt. of a belligerent ship in distress which sistance, but 8th Army forces contin- forces battling on Leyte Island in the Vienna. ued to push on and captured high Philippines, yesterday made substantial Gen. James H. Doolittle's first ra'd-on- had put into a neutral port. Driving north toward Budapest from Tokyo men have returned safely to the After some diplomatic fenegiing they ground southwest of Faenza. gains against fierce Japanese resistance the great Danube River bridgehead, in the Ormoc Valley. An enemy tank United States after landing in Russia were transfered farther west into Rus- the Russians were less than 30 miles and »escaping« across one of the sia, -and later, on a picnic, motored attack in the Ormoc corridor was re- from the Hungarian capital last night. pulsed with heavy losses to the Japs. world's best-guarded frontiers, accord- across the border into Persia 'rom Swedish Ship Will More than a hundred towns and vil- ing to the Associated Press. From Leyte itself, General Douglas A. lages were taken in yesterday's fight- where they sailed to the States. MacArthur reported that all enemy ing, and German and Hungarian pri- The AP said that the inside story Bring Gifts to POWs water reinforcement routes had been soners taken in the last two days of their adventure had been learned Geoffrey Disarmed cut off, and that the Jap garrison on mounted to 2,400, according to last from an unnamed but âuthoritative* PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 7 —The the island was finding its situation night's Soviet communique. source. FAIRMONT, W. Va., Dec. 7 — Cus- Swedish ship, Saivo, will leave the »critical.« The speed of the latest Russian ad- The men, a crew of one of the B-25 tomers in the City National Bank here United States for the Swedish port of U. S. fighter bombers, supporting vances through west-central Hungary Mitchells which hit the Japanese capi- ran for cover today when a four-year- Gothenburg, bearing Red Cross bundles Leyte ground operations, attacked was described as better than the Ger- tal on April 18, 1942, made a forced old boy, Geoffrey Ellis, brandished a for 49,000 American prisoners of war in enemy installations at Ormoc Bay man blitz through Poland and France landing in a Russian maritime prov- real, honest-td-goodness revolver. With Germany, so that the captured Yanks where they destroyed a Jap cargo1 vessel. in 1939 and 1940. ince wliile the other bombers in the the tired air of a woman who's been may also celebrate Christmas just as American heavy bombers operating Meanwhile the puppet Hungarian 16-plane formation flew on to China. through it many times before, Jeff's their other buddies. from bases in China, yesterday raided government, the Turkish radio re- The flyers almost were interned mother walked over to him, took the At Gothenburg, the awaited parcels the docks at Hongkong. Liberators east ported, has deserted Budapest, with a when they came down fuelless near loaded pistol from him, casually slapped will be transferred to three Red Cross of Shanghai sank an enemy freighter Chamber meeting scheduled some- Vladivostok and told Russians their him on the behind ,and put the gun in boats which will carry the cargo to and left another in a sinking condition. where near the Austrian border. ship should be accorded the privileges her purse. Lubeck, Germany for distribution.

I Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, December f, t944 Uiimiimiiiiiiiiiuiiiiumiiiumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu 11 iiiiiiiiiimitiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiriiii! UP FRONT . byMauldin

niMiiiiniiinnMiiiiinHtMiiiHUHiiHiiiiiiiHiNuiiiiMiiHiiniiuiiiiiininiiniuiniiiiiminiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiimnii? Using leather from the American Red Cross, fib^r and plastics from the the man and horse starting at the same FOR GRAMMATICAL GIs Germans, steej from the English Red time, from the same place at the sound I don't agree with' your answer to Cross and ingenuity from the U. S. A., the question on »Correct Usage* which of a gun. Pfc. Everett W. Colons, We-ksbury, —Pvt. George C. Demanis appeared in your edition of Nov. 9. Ky., made his own artificial leg and Experiments of this type have The sentence which read: »We suspec- walked out of a German prison camp ted the prisoner to be (he, him) who been conducted with man out-running to be repatriated. Collins, 26, lost his escaped previously.* You said that the horse. The horse, having difficulty right leg in Tunisia. He's borne now. correct usage required the use of in getting initial speed, is at a disad- »him.« My point of view is this: After vantage in -a 100-yard dash.—Ed. »Son of a sun,« a phrase used a copulative verb (to be) the predicate occasionally by GIs, originated oa noun pr pronoun is in the nominative POETIC PROTEST tbe old sailing ships, when voy- case, which in this sentence is »he.« Why, oh why, did you have to pick, ages lasted years and sailors took —Cpl. J. A. Caseres Li'l Abner's love of Fearless Fosdick? their wives along. Babies were Cpl. Caseres has overlooked an im- Months ago that strip was old, often on deck in the shadows of portant point. In the above sentence It's using space worth its weight in the broadside cannon. Sometimes the verb »to be« has a subject, »pri- gold. salvos were fired so that »nature soner.x Whenever »to be« has a sub- Fosdick is dead, glad- to say, would be assisted by the shock.« ject it is -always follwed by a word in Surely Capp has a better play! the objective case which is known as Let's get a late strip, U. S. edition, No, you can't keep your dogtags as the complement. —Editor. For that alone, most GIs are wishin'. souvenirs after you're discharged. The If you can't do that, save the space, ARs say you must turn them in with WAR-TIME GAMES Or add a pin-up with lots of lace. your other equipment. In time of war I think that the na- Fosdick died a noble death, — ture of our games should be different So will we, unleth, unleth ... More than 5,000,000 of the newly- from those we know in the days of —Pfc. Bernard A. Bearer approved overseas service bars peace. I should like to make this open You see, young man, the answer's this: have been delivered by contrac- suggestion: Why not competition be- We've been long from the land of bliss. tors to the Quartermaster Corps tween Allies in firing pistols, small While you were playira' with V. S. for immediate shipment to over- arms and other such weapons 'which honeys seas theaters of operation. You too will have a two-fold purpose. It would We were content with ancient funnies. can have your aching back on be competitive sport and effective mi- Yes, we can say with words impas- your sleeve. litary training. sioned. »By th' way, what wuz them changes you wuz gonna make when —Sgt. E. G. M. Our strips as well as food were ra- you took over last month, sir?« Army methods- of keeping records tioned. —Editor. by machinery now make it possible MY ACHING BACK! to compile a general strength report In my opinion, one of the finest FURLOUGHS FOR JOB SEEKERS of all Army units in 21 days, an op- epigrams to emerge from this war is eration that took approximately three the now current phrase, »Oh, my We all know that re-employment of months in World War I. aching back.x veterans is going to be a whale of a —♦— The medieal profession, when final problem. It is a sure thing that we A new radio program, »Assign- accounts are reckoned, will honor the cannot pour 11 million men back into ment Home,« will be presented by author of those deathless lines be- civilian jobs, giving every man the CBS with the co-operation of the cause the phrase is making it awfully, right kind of a job. I believe mat a RAINY-DAY SONG And the gay, capricious Gertie Army to help the public under- plan providing for a pre-demobilization awfully difficult for a slightly tired Ah, this is honeymooning weather Who could woo Joe through the night. stand the complex situation con- furlough—say, a couple months—would dogface to »make something« of the When skies are dismal overhead fronting the nation on (he vets* help a man look for work while sus- And there's Anzio and Salerno, desultory twinges which rnay titillate When all good shack-johs get together return. The dramatic series will tained by his Army pay and allow- And there's Rome and Naples, too; his back and so earn himself a place For coffee and a roll In bed. include remote pickups from army ances. As soon as a man had a Job, And each doughboy wants you to at sick call. , —S-Sgt. Gray Wilcox centers in the States and overseas. As a doctor who has nursed many he would be discharged. If a man know —♦— an aching back, I make ah urgent ap- were unable to find a job at the end NEVER PLEASED There was naught he didn't do. One of the reasons why our Pacific peal for the immortalization of those of the period allotted, he would, under subs are doing so well has to do with Though I have eaten of this foreign Now, there's France — its lovely beautiful words: »Oh, my aching this plan, be subject to recall to ac- soap. Naval experts have perfected a fruit mam'selle back!« tive service where he could be used soap solution that, mixed with the oil Until it leaves me with a bitter mouth Waiting for GI Joe's touch, —Capt. William H. Kupper for the many jobs which the Army used in the submotors, does a thorough Until voluptuous grapes no longer suit As he fights and raises hell and Navy will be called upon to do job of cleaning carbon. This allows A palate stranger to this eager south With the German such and such. AMERICAN^UNIFORMS after the war. • the sub to remain undersea much —Sgt. David Smith And though amid fucundity to waste On various occasions our buddies and There've been hard and even gay longer than they'd otherwise be able ourselves have been accused by Of medlar and citron and other strange times, to do. French civilians of wearing their uni- FARMERS AND SLICKERS affairs, Times of hunger and of pain —O— I hunger only for aij, apple's taste forms. We were wondering if in some Is it true that farmers produce Plodding, muddy, by the way times, To grease the skids for the Axis, ; Mellowed half a winter below the way they could be enlightened to the everything except salt and fish? If so, May they never come again! 223,500,000 pounds of used cooking fact that the uniform we jvear is please give us your opinion as to stairs. fat have been collected by Ameri- American. Evidently they have been Which is the more important group— It Is of no importance that I own I may never get to > can civilians. The armed forces misinformed. We respect our iniform city people or farmers. Let's have the Asated tongue, with one remaining Excel the man I must replace have added another 3.22,990,000 and want it recogniezd as American. answer as soon as possible as we have wish But—this 1*11 gladly bet you, pounds. —Cpl. R. E. Dobey a big argument about this. For old familiar things, New England I'll try like hell to keep his pace! —♦— Pfc. W. E. Sanders —Cpl. Fred Morris grown Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, Vet- I'm a GI Joe replacement, And served upon some blue New Eng- erans' Administrator, has interpreted Pvt. Hermit Sloan Just came over 'cross the sea, OF MEN AND NAGS Salt Is ^harvested* and not mined. land dish. the vets' educational clause of the GI And I'm learning what the boys Bill of Rights to mean that eligible To settle an argument will you tell This may be a point in favor of the us if it is possible for a man to outrun One taste of them, and sure as hell meant vets may take courses at schools any- farmers. At the present time, however, beneath Because it's happening to me! a horse In a 100-yard dash with both Mail Call is conducting bouts be- where in the world, as long as the I'll feel the pomgranate seed between —S-Sgt. M. N. Coriadino schools meet American standards. tween front liners and rear-echelon my teeth. letter writers; between murses and —T-5 James Hall young lieutenants; between various MORE FISH PW Bag Grabs schools of thought on demobilization; Lone Private Nabs THE FEW My girl has left me and between civilians and overseas The easy roads are crowded, She married another, troops. The feud between farmers and The level roads are jammed, But what do I care? Entire German Unit Noted Nazi Ace city folk will have to wait. —Editor. The pleasant little rivers I'll marry her mother. With the driftinj folks are crammed, By Cpl. H. T. HOLLIS WITH THE 7TH ARMY, Dec. 7 — A —Sgt. Robert W. Eylmann German flying ace of World War I, COMPULSORY TRAINING, NOW But off yonder where it's rocky Special To Stars and Stripes who was a member of the famed Rich- I see where some religious groups Where you get a better view, WITH THE THIRD INFANTRY DI- tofen Flying Circus and flew with and the National Association of Gov- You will find the ranks are thinning HOME FIRES VISION OF THE SEVENTH ARMY, Rlichs-Marshal Hermann Goering erning Boards of State Universities And the travelers are few. What memories could a fireside bring? FRANCE—Give a lone private of the whom he knows well, has been found and Allied Institutions (whew!) have Where the going's smooth and pleas- What moments could it hold? 7th Infantry Regiment of the Third in the recent PW 'bag in eastern nixed the idea of compulsory mili- ant, The plan of war and how it works Division a .50 caliber machine gun You will always find the throng France . tary training. Now that such groups Deep in its flames, it's told. with plenty of ammunition and he'll An experienced pilot, with a record are on record, the idea of compulsory For the many—it's a pity take on any number of Krauts. of 17 Allied planes shot down over the military training will be likely mo- Seem to like to drift along; A soldier who has seen it all Private First Class Bruce A. Aven, western front during the last war, the dified so that no special interests are But the steep that calls for courage Could ne'er the story tell Ringling, Oklahoma, jeep driver and a prisoner is 51 years old and only a injured. And the task that's hard -to do For memories then would assail the number 1 gunner for a 7th Intantry brain technical sergeant, although he had We have recognized the necessity Will bring its pay in glory Battle Patrol was on a reconnaissance And he'd relive the hell been scheduled to be commissioned a for compulsory military training in To the never-wavering Few. patrol when intense enemy fire was wartime, and it has gained widespread ■ —Pfc. Robert J. Galvin lieutenant. So let him have the fireside the signal for the small number of approval at a time when people are Holder of the German equivalent of Where sweet oblivion is met men to pull back. not blinded by special interest so REPLACEMENT LAMENT the U. S. Congressional Medal of Honor, Where there's no remembrance. But Aven decided to stick it out and prevalent in peacetime. I think that I'm a GI Joe replacement the I and II Class Iron Cross and Please help us to forget! opened up with the .50, firing two a program of military training should Just came across the sea, complete belts of ammo, then calmly many other decorations, the former ace —Pvt. John G. Cooley attributed his frontline assignment to be adopted now, when we are cogni- And I'm learning what the boys meant turned h{s jeep around and tailed his Nazi disapproval of his public con- zant 'of our errors of the past in When they said, »It's not for me!« buddies. , misguided pacifism. demnation of the German slaughter of I've heard about NATOUSA EXPECTANCY? The next morning it was discovered If a few more lobbies get to work on Russian civilians at Minsk. And its gay Arabic gal, that Aven had been firing at an entire proposals and pull out the stops, we 'Twill soon be over He said that opposition to Hitler How they thrilled because she used to battalion of Krauts, who had three shall make the same mistakes all over This toil and strife, within Germany was greater than gen- Bolster up their low morale. flakwagons, 20mm fire, numerous ma- again, only the next time it will be Then one will return erally assumed, but believed that Nazi chine guns, and riflemen. A few of the Newport News and not Pearl Harbor. There are tales of Old Bizerte, To a tranquil life. party control would prevent any revo- Kraut didn't manage to retreat, for Full of wine and dine delight. -1st Sgt. (Acting), F. McMullen lutionary action at this time. —Line Capt., Inf. the .50 caliber bullets struck home.

r By Al Capp THE STARS AND STRIPES Li i Abner New York—STRASBOURG—Paris / OH, THIS is HORRIBLE.^ Dally newspaper Lor U. S. Armed Forces in France, published HYAR COME TH' TRAIN Mondays through Saturdays. WIF TH'CITY PAPER \ evEN HORRIBLER Ck 0,V edS 1el made ot the e WIF TH'TEARLBSS h ,h M ' , K? " 'I d'«onal services supplied THAN AH HAD F-PEAREP.T by the t) ,ed Nations News Service the Army News Service and ni FOSDICK "COMICAL- illustrations by Army Pictorial Service. STRIP IN IT.T- Lt. John O Kearney officer in charge. Strasboura Strasbourg Offices: Editorial. 17,19. Rue de la Nuee-Bleue (Blauwolkengasse); Circulaiion. 17-19, Rue de la Nuee Bleue The Stars and Stripes of Strasbourg Is printed in the plant of Les Dernleres Nouvelles de Strasbourg. 17-19, Rue de la Nuee-Bleue (Blauwolkengasse).

Volume 1, Number 4 Thursday, December 7, 1941 Editorial Staff: Vic Dallaire. managins editor Robert B Me- intyre Ed Clark. Bill Estoff. Ralph MarV Wade Jones John

„.,,Mecn°n,c/l: ,L«9 Mulligan. Myer Goldstein. Roscoe E. Day Willial m Bender, Joseph Konkel. Frank McMullen Edward Benson. Circulation: Jo»epb Conforti, John Cuffe, Harold Kalish Harley Peppard Thursday, December 7, I9M THE STARS AND STRIPES Page S War Prisoners Topsy-Turvy Giants Defeat Redskins, 16-13; In Germany Get Fair Treatment Chicago Licks Pitt-Cards, 49-7

"WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-American prisoners, of war in Germany are re^ ceiving kind treatment, prisoners in Guadaukas In Randolph Field, 2nd AAF Victory Moves Japan proper seem to be faring better than those in occupied Japanese ter Earn 'Treasury Bowl' Tilt ritories, while Axis prisoners in the Record With 7 Gotham Eleven United States are well treated but hot NEW YORK, Dec. 7—Randolph pampered, it was announced here last week by the House Military Commit- Extra Points Field's undefeated Fliers and the Int6 1st Place tee. Second AAF »Superbombers« will play in the »Treasury Bowl« foot- Committee investigators, making in- PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7—Held to two NEW YORK, Dec. 7—The New York: quiries throughout United States touchdowns in the first half, the Chi- ball game in the Polo Grounds here Giants capitalized on two intercepted prison camps, reported there was no cago Bears went into high gear in the December 16th, Treasury Department passes to defeat the Washington Red- evidence of too lenient treatment of last two periods to splatter the com- officials have announced. skins, 16-13, here Sunday and take un- inmates. They stated there were 281,- bined Pittsburgh Stellers and Chicago Randolph Field is sparked by Bill disputed possession of first place in the eastern bracket of the National 000 German, 51,000 Italian, and 2,200 Cardinals, 49-7, here Sunday. • Dudley, former Virginia All-Ameri- Japanese war prisoners in 132 base The Pitt-Cards were handicapped Football League. camps and 334 branch camps. can, and later star with the Pitts- The teams entered the game tied for by the loss of Johnny Griggs, their burgh Steelers in the National Pro- Regarding American handling of leading ground-gainer, who entrained the lead, but wild Steve Owen's play- fessional League. The Second AAF prisoners, the committee said that the for his Boston home, leavirjg a terse for-play huskies came through when number of escape attempts was »sur- note for the management: »This is has Glenn Dobbs, ex-Tulsa All- the chips were down. Bill Paschal prisingly small* and confined mostly the end.« America, and Ray Evans, former produced the winning touchdown with to Germans. » Japanese prisoners oc- Pete Guadaukas set a league record, Kansas ace. three minutes to play when he crashed casionally engage in mass attempts of booting seven conversions. Jim Ford- over after Howie Livingston, sensa- harakiri which are carried out by the ham led scorers with two touchdowns, tional rookie, had intercepted a most violent and spectacular means one on a 63-yard run and the other Sammy Baugh pass. at hand.* after catching a pass from Sid Luck- Bruin Win Puts The Giants took an early lead when The committee said the provisions man. Hank Margarita, Gary Famig- Bill Petrillas, another yearling, snared of the Geneva convention for treat- lietti, Connie Mack Berry, McEnulty Frank Filchok's snappy pass and ment of prisoners are being »carried and Turner also scored for the Bears. Toronto in 2nd raced 24 yards to score. Ken Strong out together by the United States* In Detroit, Bob Westfall, who ran the count to 10-0 with a 32-yard and the » German government has en- played second fiddle to Tommy Har- field goal. deavored to accord to American pris- Movie starlet Mimi Berry's fiance Is mon at Michigan and to Fireball BOSTON, Dec. 7—The Boston Bruins The 'Skins roared back, however, asi oners' standards of treatment pre- •down under« In the South Pacific. Frankie Sinkwich here, had a show of turned back the Toronto Maple Leafs, Baugh enjoyed one of his best days of 5-4, here to drop the Leafs into second scribed by the convention.* While he's away things appear to be his own as he passed and ran the De- the season. A seven-yard pitch to topsy-turvy for Mimi, troit Lions to a 38-7 triumph over the place in the National Hockey League The committee also added that Ger- as the Montreal Ganadiens outskated mans have ^adopted a less liberal in- Boston Yankees. PRO GRID STANDINGS Sinkwich suffered a cheekbone frac- the Chicago Blackhawks, 2-1, in Chi- terpretation of some portions of the cago to take the lead. EASTERN DIVISION convention than has our government. ture against Cleveland last week and , W L T Pts' OP So Gorgeous She was used sparingly, but he booted a Ken - Smith, Bill Cupolo, Frankie New York 7 1 1 175 75 Primary example of the unliberal in- Philadelphia 6 1 2 241 lis terpretation of the treaty by Germans field goal and five conversions. Mario and Jack Crawford accounted Washington 6 2 1 169 149 is in connection with food rations. Westfall passed to Bob Keene and for Boston goals as the Bruins chalked Boston 2 8 0 82 233 The German government also permits Drives Men Nuts Dave Diehl for touchdowns and set up their fourth victory in their last Brooklyn 0 10 0 69 166 large' supplies of food to be sent to the stage for Elmer Hackney's three- five starts. Smith headed the attack WESTERN DIVISION touchdown plunges with long runs. with two goals. W L T Pts OP prisoners through the Red Cross.* NEW YORK, Dec. 7 —Esther Wil- Green Bay 8 2 0 238 141 In reference to Japan, who did not liams, the swimming champion turned Ted Kennedy, with two goals, and Detroit 6 3 1 216 151 ratify the Geneva convention, the com- Nick Metz and Babe Pratt counted for Chicago Bears 6 3 1 25S . 173 movie star, is so gorgeous she drives Cleveland 4 5 0 175 197 mittee stated: »it has undertaken to some men nuts. the Leafs. Pitt-Cards 0 10 0 108 329 apply with some modifications the pro- Twilight Tear Take, for instance, the case of Al- The Canadiens shattered a 1-1 dead- NEXT SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE visions of the convention.* len Aftenchuck, 25, who admitted in lock with less than five minutes to go Cleveland at Philadelphia court last week that he had swiped when Fern Gauthier netted a shot, on New York at Washington six reels of a film starring Esther. 'Horse of Year' assists by Buddy O'Connor and Dutch She was so alluring, he told the judge, Hiller. Maurice Richard of the Ca- Wilbur Moore shortly before the half Courts Affirm that he decided he had to have the NEW YORK, Dec. 7—Twilight Tear, nucks and Pete Horek of the Hawks ended accounted for one Washington film if he couldn't have the girl. Calumet Farms' queen of thorough- scored earlier goals. touchdown, while Joe Aguirre booted Artenchuck made a fine distinction, breds, has been named »horse of the a 43-yard field goal to knot the count Conchy Affair too: he insisted he hadn't broken into at 10-10 at the intermission. yeiar* by the Daily Racing Form and HOCKEY STANDINGS the theater to swipe the film. Rather, associated newspapers. She is the Aguirre made another field goal iri NATIONAL LEAGUE TALLAHASSE, Fla., Dec. 7—The he said, he bought his ticket, saw the first filly ever to win the title. the third period from the 20. Then, W L T Pts G OG after Paschal's touchdown junket, the Florida Supreme Court last week af- picture a few times until the theater The three-year-old daughter of Bull firmed the removal of a conscientious closed, and then hid somewhere in Montreal 10 4 1 21 58 37 Redskin place-kicking ace split the Lea won 14 of her 17 starts in 1944 Toronto 10 5 0 20 60 50 objector as a teacher in the Miami the theater. When everyone had and earned 167,555 dollars. Her record uprights from the 39-yard line with Detroit 7 4 2 16 63 42 two minutes remaining, but a holding public schools, declaring that the cleared out, he walked into the pro- included a streak of 11 straight vic- jection room and took the six reels. Boston 6 7 1 13 58 62 penalty nullified the kick and shoved »true test of patriotism can accurately tories, Including three over stable- New York 2 T 3 7 42 62 back the Redskins 15 yards. be measured , by the willingness of a The judge committed him to the Chicago 2 10 1 5 49 74 mate Pensive, Derby-Preakness win- In all, Baugh completed 25 of 35 citizen to bear arms and fight in de- Kings County Hospital observation ner. • ■ i passes, operating from the T-forma* fense of his country.« ward to. see if the medicos could do This marked the third time in four The teacher, Edward N. Schweitzer, something about it. tion and from the single-wing. years that one of Warren Wright's Bainbridge Finishes At Philadelphia, the Philadelphia . had carried his appeal to the Supreme runners has captured the award. Eagles clung to a slim chance of cap- Court after a circuit court approved Whirlaway was named in '41 and '42. Undefeated Season turing the eastern division title by his dismissal by the Dade County Nation Favors Walter Jefford's Pavot, which won handing the Brooklyn Tigers a 34-0 Board of Public Instruction. The all eight of his starts, was a unani- defeat last Sunday. It was the Tigers' board charged that Sehweitzer had mous selection for the two-year-old BAINBRIDGE, Md., Dec. 7—Bain- tenth straight reversal as they closed said he would not aid the U. S. in its Arms Trainin award, while Edward R. Bradley's bridge Naval, refused permission by their dismal season. war against Germany and Japan. Busher, daughter of War Admiral, was the Navy to compete in a post-season Two Eagle touchdowns came on long Florida law requires school teachers named the leading juvenile filly. game, completed its ten-game football runs, one of 65 yards by Vic Lindskog to »labor faithfully and earnestly for DENVER, Dec. 7—The public favors schedule with a 13-3 win Over Max- compulsory military training after the Alfred Parker's By Jimminy was the after he intercepted. Jack Butler's pass the advancement of pupil* in their outstanding three-year-old colt; Green- well Field here Sunday. The victory in the first period and the other by^ (studies, deportment and morals and war, according to the most recent sur- gave Bainbridge its second straight vey by the National Opinion Research tree. Stable's Devil Diver nosed out Jack Banta, who circled right end for! embrace every opportunity to incul- First Fiddle for handicap honors. perfect season. 60 yards. cate by precept and example the prin- Center at the University of Denver. A Harry Hopp and Charley Justice ciples of truth, honesty, patriotism nationwide cross-section showed 79 of turned in Bainbridge touchdowns in and practice of every Christian vir- every 100 adults favors a law that would Tigers Tell Grid Plans the second half after Maxwell Field Ed Frayne Dies tue.* require boys to take a year of military enjoyed a brief edge on Joe String- training when they~ became 18 years PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 7 —Prince VAN NUYS, Calif., Dec. 7 — Ed fellow's 11-yard field goal. Frayne, 51-year-Old sports editor of old.* • ton University, which has played only Three of each 79 said they would three informal football games this the New York Journal-American -and 47s Raise Hell with year, will return to formal gridiron TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 7—The unbeaten, vice president of the Twentieth Cen- favor compulsory training »if the boy's tury Sporting Club, died at hii home are allowed to finish school first; if the wars next fall with Charley Caldwell untied Fort Pierce Amphibious Train- Gun Supply Dump as coach. Caldwell, a former Tiger ing Center football team squeezed here last night. In r e c e ft t years, program were like the ROTC; or if boys Frayne had been living in retirement were not needed at home.« athlete, was Williams College football through to a 7-6 victory over Third AAF of North Carolina here Sunday. as a result of heart attacks. WITH THE 7TH ARMY, Dec. 7—The Seventeen percent opposed the pro- coach. story of how the »Orange-Tails,* a posal, and only four percent were un- P-47 Thunderbolt outfit operating over decided. 7th Army battlelines, almost annihila- Nearly half of the persons interviewed Army's Victorious Cadets ted an enemy artillery supply com- said they did not think compulsory pany in the Lower Vosges, was told military training in the U. S. and other today by a German prisoner, one of antions would necessarily lead to fu- the few survivors of the raid. ture wars. Persons who thought it The target was Waldhambach, taken would make wars less likely outnum- three days ago by the doughfeet, who bered by two to one those who thought found the town still burning when they it would increase the possibility of war. reached it eight hours after the bomb- ing. The prisoner said that the buildings Onetime Pilot Given housing the artillery personnel were completely destroyed and the com- Added Three Years pany almost wiped out by the dive- bombers. The Thunderbolt squadron which NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7—Robert G. did the job has been commended by Kaslow, 20, former lieutenant in the higher headquarters. Part of a group Army Air Forces who escaped Nov. commanded by Col. James B. Tipton, 10 from Craig Field, Ala., in a stolen Blytheville, Ark., the squadron was trainer plane, was sentenced last week led by 1st Lt. Robert Gaspar, Pekin, to a three-year term in the Fedaral penitentiary after he pleaded guilty in 111. U. S. District Court to appropriating the plane for his own use and dam- Wacs Reach Leyte aging it in a crash east of New Or- LEYTE, Philippines, Dec. 7 — The leans. first ten Wacs to arrive in the Philip- The three-year term, though, was pines stepped off transport planes on just another drop in the bucket to Leyte iast week and, a few minutes Kaslow, for he had been in the Craig Field stockade awaiting shipment to later, saw a Jap plane shot down by Army was never able to put 12 men on the field this season, in spite of what you see in the picture above, but there anti-aircraft batteries. The girls, an Army prison to serve 30 years. Kaslow had been convicted by a court were many times when the opposition would have sworn they were playing against 12 men. The unbeaten Cadets here ara mostly secretarial workers, were given left to right: Ed Rafalko, AI Nemetz, Joe Stanowlcz, Bob St. Onge, Johnny Green, either Arch Arnold, or Bob Hayes comfortable quarters in a school build- martial of assault with intent to mur- der, and of larceny, forgery and de- (they're both left tackles) and Dick Pitzer. The backfield, left to right: Max Minor, Tom Lombardo, Dick Walterhouse ing which has showers and other mod- and Dale Hall. Missing are Felix Blanchard, Doug Kenna and Glenn Davis, the nation's high score*. em conveniences. sertion. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, December 7, 1944 QM Deals East Engineers Wear Their Foxholes States Still Butt-Shy; Fowl Blow as It Buys Up Chicks Folks Doubletalking

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—It seems the By JOHN RADOSTA East, which has been cigaretteless, , Stars and Stripes Staff Writer beefless, baconless and butterless, is From the Atlantic to the Pacific, the panic is on—»Haven't you got just going to have to do without chicken, one teeny-weeny ittie-bittie pack of cigarettes? I'll' even take Raleighs!« The too, after Dec. 11. Not what soldiers tobacco keeps growing, the machines keep making the smokes, but still there's mean by schicken*—just plain poul- a shortage. Congressmen, business men, government officials, savants, eco- nomists, editorial writers, advisory councils—everybody comes up with some try chicken. bright theory or recommendation. All put together, it adds up to the mos The mean ol' War Food Administra- amazing conglomeration of double talk since Technology. tion ordered nearly all chickens pro- For there's still a shortage. We wouldn't know what its all about, but duced and processed in the Del-Mar, sifting through the reams of stories, we've got the impression people back Va., peninsula and the Shenendoah home have gone nuts. Light up a Chelsea and listen: Valley set aside for Army purchase. Regional OPAs say people are so This region normally supplies from scared they're filling basements with 60 to 80 percent of the eastern sea- General Busted for Talk hoarded smokes. People follow tobacco board's chicken needs. trucks the way they used to race after Gets War Production Job gasoline - tank-trucks. They plod, The embargo was expected to re- through freezing weather from one main in effect for the first three store to another. They snitch on each months of 1945. During that time the NEW CANAAN, Conn., Dec 7— other. Army hopes to buy at least 2,000,000 Former Major General Henry J. F. A five-year-old boy in Albuquerque pounds of poultry a week to stave Miller, who was demoted and sent bought a pack, explaining it was good off an anticipated QM deficit. home by General Dwight D. Eisen- for his nerves. A nice old lady in Mil- The East maybe won't be alone, for The boys who get shot at on the ground and the boys who get shot at in the hower for talking in public about waukee wanted some for her sick son the WFA hinted the order might be air have found something else in common. It's the flak suit, worn first by air- the invasion date of western France, »to ease his pain«; this while carrying extended to other major chicken- pro- men. Now combat engineers have picked it up. Often unable to hear mortar has left the Army for a war pro- a shopping bag full of pain-easers. A ducing areas, with Georgia and Ala- and small arms fire because of the roar of a bulldozer's exhaust, the engineers duction advisory job in the Boots roue with a leer in his eye finds a bama being considered as the next are now wearing the iron vests as illustrated above in a shot of a Siegfried Aircraft 'Nut Corporation. pretty cigarette girl has none for her- embargo region. Line sector. \ Last spring, while talking to a self, offers her a pack of his own, for War Food Administrator Marvin woman guest at a London bar, 15 cents. Miller was reported to have said: Jones and Quartermaster General Ed- Dealers Chagrined mund B. Gregory asked civilians to »On my honor, invasion will take place before June 15.« .The incident Dealers feel like punching their me- remember that when poultry supplies DFC Goes to Four Chaplains was reported by the woman to Gen- chanical vendors in the snoot. Small run low, ^Chicken is for fighters.* Get boys make a business of going from that? eral Ike, and busting of Miller quickly followed. store to store, emptying the machines. Eastern markets, though, may still Who Chose Death to Save GIs Storekeepers who once rated with expect 20 to 40 percent of their usual butchers as monsters (remember meat supplies from areas outside the em- rationing?) find themselves startled bargoed region, ,and from storage WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Four Army Ammo Step Up when piteous customers t»y to ingra- stocks now at their record point, ten chaplains who gave away their life- tiate themselves with gifts or oily million pounds above a year ago. Fighter Flicker Identifies jackets while a troopship was sinking flattery. Pilot Who Got Rommel were honored this week by the War Urged by WPB First you hear there's no extensive Department, which characterized their black market, and then you hear of (Continued from Page 1) self-sacrifice as »one of the noblest government officials »smashing« black SANTA ANA Calif., Dec. 7—In- deeds of the war.« WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Five hun- markets in New York, Chicago, Phila- December 7, 1941... formation data carefully pieced to- dred million dollars worth of new fa- Distinguished Service Crosses were delphia, Los Angeles and Podunk, gether indicated that 20-year-old Lt. cilities must be built immediately to where they sell 'em for 50 to 75 cents awarded posthumously to the four of- expand the output of critically needed following year, American-Filipino Harold O. Miller of Santa Rosa was ficers, Clark V. Poling, of New York; a pack. Then you have dealers wholl forces heroically fought the Jap in- the flier who is responsible for- fa- John P. Washington, of Newark, N. J.; mortar shells. sell you a pack only if you buy a % This announcement was made by vader, but America had lost too much tally injuring Nazi Field Marshal Alexander D: Goode, of Washington, dozen undershirts or a refrigerator— blood from her wounds, and was un- Rommel, last July 24, the United War Production Chief J. A. Krug, who very illegal, of course. It's even illegal and George L. Fox, of Chicopee Falls, disclosed, however, that some of the able adequately to supply her gallant Press reported here last week. Mass. to tie the sales in with the purchase troops trapped in the islands. lagging munitions programs are be- According to Army Air Force They lost their lives Feb. 3,' 1945. of war bonds. On April 9, 1942, on Bataan, a small films, tracer bullets from Miller's ginning to catch. up to schedule and A smoothie Rochester grocer put when their transport, the Dorchester, that workers in key production cen- smokes in cans of cookies, upped the open car displaying a white flag rolled P-47' Thunderbolt penetrated a Nazi was torpedoed by a German subma- along a military highway in the morn- staff car 20 miles behind the Ger- ters are returning to war plants In en- price of the cookies half a buck. Like rine off Greenland. After distributing couraging numbers. the toothpaste tube deal, some stores ing toward the Japanese lines in the man lines. Miller's background' in- lifebelts until, the supply was ex- With former WPB Chairman Donald vicinity of Limay, signaled the sur- formation is that this staff car was require you to turn in the old wrap- hausted, the chaplains handed out Nelson's plan for limited resumption of render of the American-Filipino forces the only one destroyed by the per to prevent hoarding. One lady in their own. They rushed about the ship, civilian production already abandoned, Reno brought in some ashes and pa- on that peninsula. In the car were American Air Forces on July 24. helping men to safety and encourag- Krug said his own program for an- thetically reported the pack had Maj. Gen. E. B. King and his aide, ing them. lowing unrestricted manufacture of and Col. E. P. Williams, chief of staff. burned accidentally, and could she Survivors reported the chaplains non-military goods after V-day may have another? Some despairing deal- On May 6th, after six weeks of 'Nubbins'Offers Gifts calmed »confused and fear-stricken have to be drastically modified. ers say they're not going to renew ceaseless cannonading by the Japanese, men* who thought the plunge into the In the light of new military require- their tobacco licenses until this blows the fortress of Corregidor, in Manila To Other Little Boys icy waters would kill them. The chap- ments it may be necessary, he said, over; customers < can be so-o-o-o Bay, and the satellite forts, Hughes, lains persuaded them to abandon the to impose strict limitation on the ornery, some of them even offer to Drum and Frank, were surrendered at sinking ship and take a chance on amount of non-war construction and 11 PM by Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- DENVER, Colo., Dec. 7—Three year being rescued. fight. N old Forest »Nubbins« Hoffman, the lad limit the output of civilian goods, par- wright. The last glimpse the survivors had Ladies' Pipes Sell from Cheyenne, Wyoming, who has ticularly automobiles. From the dark days of death and of the chaplains was of the four men, The outlook for industrial reconver- Ladies' pipes are selling briskly and been suffering from a serious Dladder side by side, standing on the deck. some of the girls are even going in defeat on Bataan and Corregidor, ailment, and who already has cele- sion Is a result of a change in circum- America's present-day war might was Poling and Fox were Protectants, stances and not a change in WPB for mild stogies—when they can find brated his Christmas because doctors Washington was a Catholic and Goode them. One Portland dealer, though, born. Today we are knocking on gave him little chance to live, has re- policy, he declared. Japan's front door. We have swept a Jew; blew his top when a girl asked, for ceived more than 200 presents from »The extraordinary heroism and de- »ladies' pipe tobacco.« Another in New the enemy from his strategic Pacific people throughout the states. (Continued from Page 1) Islands; * General Douglas A MacAr- votion of these men of God has been Orleans rente out his mechanical thur and his forces have returned to »Nubbins« told his parents that he'd an unwavering beacon for thousands Courtmartial... cigarette-maker for the uninitiated the Philippines and are now engaged like to share his gifts with other little of chaplains in the armed forces,* who can't roll their Bull Durhams, in pushing the Japs from Leyte; boys, so five boxes of toys were taken said Brig. Gen. William R. Arnold, Offices in New York lose hours and Tokyo has been bombed four times to St. Vincent's Hqme for Orphans. chief of Army chaplains. »Their man- have permitted institution of trial pro- hours of working time whenever the employees hear rumors- of a drug within a week and a half. The Denver specialist who took over ner of dying was one of the noblest ceedings up to June 7, 1945. The pres- the case when »Nubbins« was brought deeds of the war." ent extension, voted last Spring, ex- store with a carton. The Anti-Ciga- U. S. mass production, and her rette League is having a picnic, just courage, have healed America's Pearl to Mercy Hospital here, said that the pires today. boy has improved so much that an The Navy said, ^Secretary Forrestal, drunk with joy as they prescribe gen- Harbor, wounds, and the slant-eyed (Continued from Page 1) tian root, cream of Tartar, or a dose enemy is about to shell out for her operation may be performed early in his findings upon evidence before the of Rochelle Salts. payments deferred. next week. , court of inquiry and all other proceed- Saarbrucken Fired . . ings in the matter to date, has found And then there was the second lieu- that there were errors of judgement on tenant in Paris who had a nail at- the part of certain officers in the naval tached to the end of his swagger supply sources and supply lines, again stick. »Just the thing for snagging Elliot Roosevelt, Faye Emerson attacked'in daylight yesterday the syn- service both at Pearl Harbor and at butts,« he explained. thetic oil plant at Merzeburg, in north- Washington.* western Germany, and rail lines in Secretary Stimson said, »The Army Take 'Leap' at Grand Canyon the western Reich. They were es- Pearl Harbor Board, although it recom- corted by . 800 fighters, but they saw mended no disciplinary or other action, Pfc Seeks New Wife concluded that there were several offi- Sawyer, pastor of the First Methodist no signs of the Luftwaffe, whicn lost GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Dec. 7— 91 planes in Tuesday's raids. cers in the field and in the War Depart- Col. Elliot Roosevelt, second son of Church, of Williams, Ariz. Jack Frye, ment who did not perform their duties To Mother His Baby president of Transcontinental and Last night the RAF sent out 1,300 the President, and film actress Faye Lancasters to attack other marshalling with the necessary skill, or exercise the Western Airlines, was best man, and judgement which was required under Emerson were married Sunday morn- Mrs. Joseph Livengood, of N0I"th yards and synthetic oil plants. Their PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7—Pfc. Ar- ing on Yavapi Point, overlooking the attack followed a 500-bomber assault the circumstances. On the basis of the thur Whitehouse, who returned home Hollywood, Calif., granddaughter of recorded evidence I agree with some, Grand Canyon. Roosevelt, suffering the late Mme. Ernestine . Schumann- Tuesday night on Hamm, Germany's with an illegitimate ten-mdnth-old biggest railway center, which supplies but not all, of the board's conclusions.* daughter to ask his wife if she'd take from laryngitis was barely audible as Heink, was matron of honor. Mrs. Stimson said that in his opinion re- he I-do'd his way into his third mar- Livengood had been matron of honor the Ruhr Valley. care of her, announced through his RAF and Australian Spitfires con- moval of General Short from his com- mother that he would seek an annul- riage; it was Miss Emerson's second. at Faye"s first wedding. mand was »serious result« and »suffi- Mrs. Roosevelt, who is 27, expects tinued their campaign against V-2 ment if he could find someone else The ceremony was conducted in a launching sites in the Netherlands yes- cient action« for an Army officer of ex- who would »care a little for me and little room used as a museum for In- to continue her screen career until cellent record. her husband leaves the service. terday, without loss. a lot for the child.* dian relics by the Rev. Roger W. The soldier's mother, Mrs. Anna Whitehouse has been tending the in- YOB... PULL BACK fant, Geraldine, since Whitehouse THE RETRACTING brought her from Newfoundland, HANDLE... AS FAB. , 'NICE 6om', THIS IS HEY, TERRY, where she was born of a romance with AS IT—WILL GO... ALEX, IN THE PUN KAN ALEX IS HDCT.' an unnamed nurse. His mother said TERRY ON THE SO PACK AND THEN LET IT RUN.. WAIST...I THINK FORWARD—THAT'S Whitehouse had received offers of I $AW ONE WAIST SEE WHATfe WHATLTHAT HALF WAY...THEN SMOWN<3.' GUNS.' ALEX adoption from Chicago and Washing- J DO IT A6AIN TO and IS HURT] J DUNKAN IS ton, but that the Pfc. intended to keep ^ LIABLE TO ' "COMPLETE LOADING .FIRE SHORT BURSTS the baby. SHOOT us! Whitehouse's wife, Rose, meanwhile, ihe was still absent from her home, from which she fled after reporters besieged PIRATES the place for news. Fellow employees at the flve-and-ten-cent store wher« she works said they hadn't seen hei by since she first heard the news. At that Milton time she burst into tears and left. The Whitehouses, married nine Caniii years, have no children of their own.

\ I