- <Q Winter and Trench-foot Winter and Trench-foot ".. Sixty trench-foot casual- . .Wriggling the toes, even ties were admitted to U.S. Army inside the shoes, helps to keep hospitals in one area for every. the blood flowing normally. ." 100 battle casualties. .'* From Col. J. E. Gordon, Chief of The Stars and Stripes, Nov. 29, DaOfite¥fspaperef U.S ggSCyin the European Theater rf Oj»ratlon$ Preventive Medicine, ETO. Vol. 1—No. 131 if* New York—PARIS—London lFr. Monday, Dec. 4, 1944 Third Army Crosses Saar In Vanguard as Yanks Keep Rolling Ahead Nazis, In Retreat, ScorchOwnLand; 9th Takes Julich U.S. Third Army troops smashed across the Saar River yesterday, hurdling their last major water barrier to the Rhineland at Saarlauten, Nazis retreating from the river's west bank burned a village in their wake—first evidence of a scorched earth policy inside Germany. > In the south, Germans blew the three great river U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo bridges east of Strasbourg as they pulled back across the American tanks open fire and the assault is on. This unusual panorama shot of Yank tanks in action Rhine from French Alsace to Baden, in the Reich. North- was made by a Signal Corps photographer somewhere along the front in Germany. ward, U.S. Ninth Army forces on the Roer River crushed : ; the last enemy pockets in Julich, main German strongpoint on the Smokes Tieup Forts Batter Tokyo Anew road to Cologne, United Press said 2nd Armored from the front. On their right flank, U.S. First Is Lifting, Say Yokohama Hit, Japs Report Army troops launched two new at- KOsllOTanks tacks toward the Roer, 5,000 yards ahead of them, and early front re- House Visitors Superfortresses from Saipan Island struck at Tokyo In 6-Day Battle ports said they captured Luchem, yesterday for the fourth time in little more than a week. west of Duren. Normal cigarette distribution may 'Biggest Tank Battle' be resumed next week in ETO areas A "substantial force," Washington announced, rained bombs By Morrow Davis In Holland, British Second Army where there are no transportation on industrial targets, blasted previously, in the Japanese Stars and Stripes StafI Writer problems, visiting members of the WITH THE SECOND ARMORED troops swept across a 25-foot anti- House Military Committee reported capital and also, by enemy account, raided Yokohama. DIV., Nov. 22 (Delayed).—What the tank ditch to within 1,000 yards of yesterday, according to the Asso- German radio called the "biggest the destroyed Maas River bridge At the same time, Pearl Harbor at Venlo, in a local attack launched ciated Press. They said high Amer- announced that in five raids last tank battle on the Western Front" ican officers told them there are ended at dusk today with the coun- early yesterday, Reuter reported. month Liberators heavily damaged Stars and Stripes Cprrespondent plenty of cigarettes at European Japanese airfields on Iwojima Is- Pearl Harbor ter-attacking Ninth German Panzer storage depots, but that lack ol Div. and the 15th Panzer Grenadier Morrow Davis with Ninth Army land, about midway between Saipan disclosed that a tank battle, which transportation, due to the need to and Japan. The Japanese had been Div. in a fighting retreat toward keep supplies flowing to the front, Trials Vetoed the Roer river crossings after a six- the Germans described as the big- launching raids from there against gest ever waged on the Western caused the famine in rear areas. U.S. Saipan bases. day battle in which more than "The question came down to one WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (AP).— 400 American and German tanks Front, ended Nov. 22 with the Ninth of whether it should be bullets or Japs Occupy Kichang Army and Navy inquiry boards found clashed on a three-mile front. German Panzer Division and the butts," Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R.- Pacific news was noo all favorable, that errors of judgment in Hawaii The two German divisions left 15th Panzer Grenadier Division in Conn.) said, "and, of course, priority however. A Chungking announce- and Washington contributed to the behind charred hulls of 21 Tigers, fighting retreat toward the Roer. went to bullets." ment that U.S. planes had attacked Pearl Harbor disaster. Secretaries Royal and regular models, 23 More than 400 German and Amer- Henry L Stimson and James V. Panthers and 25 Mark IVs in the ican tanks were locked in the six- Will Raise Peacetime Force Kichang revealed that the Ja- panese had occupied the city, some Forrestal said in simultaneous state- marshlike flatlands leading to the day struggle, which surged back and An ETO PX official reserved com- 400 miles below Chungking. ments yesterday, but discovered no river. The 69 tanks officially de- forth on a three-mile front, he said. ment on the statement that normal Kichang is 90 miles southeast of grounds for any court-martial pro- stroyed by the Second Armored were South of Julich, where Ninth distribution may be resumed shortly Kweiyang and is an important step- ceedings. among the 110 knocked out by all Army troops mopped up the west and said he hoped to clarify the ping-stone toward the latter city. The Secretaries of War and the units of the XIX Corps bank of the Roer yesterday, First Situation at the end of this week. Kweiyang is the principal city on Navy summed up the boards' con- 2nd Losses Heavy Army launched an attack at mid- Discussing overseas service. Rep. the highway between Kumming and clusions in their statements and night and a second assault at dawn Overton Brooks (D.-La.) said all said that the reports themselves Second Armored tank losses also west of the Roer. The two thrusts Chungking and its loss would nullify were heavy because the Shermans combat soldiers and men who have the new Ledo-Burma road, imperil could not be made public until after (Continued on Page 4) been in Europe more than two years the war, for security reasons. were unable to engage Tigers and additional U.S. air bases and men- Panthers frontally with effective- should go home after the war ends. ace Chungking itself. The Secretaries said they Would He added that Congress, at its next continue presonal investigations and, ness. Heavy tropical rains still mired Outgunned, their maneuverability session, must consider legislation to the ground offensive against Ormoc when all the evidence was in, would Gestapo Trial review their present tentative deci- hampered by mud thigh-deep in (Continued on Page 4) on Leyte Island in the Philippines places, Sherman crews resorted to but U.S. planes continued pounding sions against disciplinary action. The Stimson and Forrestal state- all sorts of stratagems to destroy Bares Torture Japanese installations elsewhere in the Jerry heavyweights. the Islands. ments wiped out the proposed court- DelegatesOpen martial trials of Maj. Gen. Walter Outstanding was the feat of Cpl. Trial of the Paris Gestapo gang, C. Short and Rear Adm. Husband Guy K. Bean, of West Burk, Vt. charged with robbing, torturing and California GIs Voted E. Kimmel, in command at Pearl (Continued on Page 4) murdering French patriots during Global Skyway Harbor at the time of the attack. the occupation, waS scheduled to To Ban Closed Shop Kimmel's lawyer said that Forres- resume today with the Government CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (ANS).—Dele- tal's statement "means that Adm. 9 Towns Dive-Bombed asking 12 defendants about the gates of the 54 nations at the Inter- SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 3 Kimmel has been cleared." torture and deportation of Gene- national Civil Aviation Conference (ANS).—Californians in the armed In Linnich-Duren Area vieve De Gaulle, 20-year-old niece voted unanimously yesterday to forces voted two to one in favor of of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. open the world's skyways to global a proposed state constitutional Henderson Gets ETO Job Nine towns in the Linnich-Duren The presiding judge read the airlines without restriction as far amendment which would have WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (AP). — area on the First and Ninth Army statement of Henri Chamberlin, as actual flight is concerned. ' banned the closed shop in union Leon Henderson, former price ad- front were dive-bombed yesterday alleged gang chief, admitting the Bypassing controversial economic contracts, partial survey of absentee ministrator, leaves for London morning when 120 Ninth AF fighter organization of an espionage ring issues, the delegates agreed to sign ballots disclosed today. The civilian shortly and eventually will go to bombers, at a reported cost of one in Algiers for the Nazis. Police said a separate document setting up two electorate defeated the proposal Germany to handle economic affairs plane, struck at enemy concentra- Chamberlin made 17,000,000 francs "freedoms of the air" as the basis three to two in the Nov'. 7 election in that part of the Reich which will tions and fortifications. Eighth AF out of silverware stolen from the of international policy—the privi- and the absentee vote was not large be controlled by the Americans fighters reconnoitered over Ger- American Embassy. lege of flying over any nation with- enough to change the result. during occupation. many. out landing and the privilege of landing anywhere for non-traffic Army, N. Dame Win purposes, such as repairs or because of bad weather. Med School Invites 'Foxhole Doc9 Weekend Grid Games By Robert Richards College Place, Wash., truck driver exams. Kinman performed a wind- Army's undefeated, untied 8th Army Troops Gain United Press War Correspondent. and auto mechanic whose battle- pipe operation, saving the life of football team defeated Navy, WITH FIFTH DIV. NEAR METZ, field operation astounded medical a dying GI during a heavy mortar 23-7, in the annual service game In Push Toward Russi Dec.