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Vol. 1 - No. 3 - Wednesday, 23 December, 1942 ALGIERS TWO FRANCS
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Reporter Finds Weather Slows

French Forces Are Ground Attacks
Anxious To Fight on Tunis Front
Mueller Says French 8th Army Goes Ahead
Burning to Take As British Advance
Axis Revenge Into Burma
Developments on the war fronts
By RED MUELLER | this week:
(Correspondent for Newsweek) |}Mud held down ground activity on
the Tunisian front to practically
FRENCH HEADQUARTERS, nothing but patrolling during
TUNISIA—The rejuvenated French the week and even hampered air
Colonial Army, borrowing arms activity. The weather was cer-
and equipment from Anglo-Ameri- tainly not good during the past
can forces in the field, is rushing seven days for military opera-
into battle almost before it’s really tions o: any kind in Tunisia.
ready in a burning desire for re- In Libya, the British Eighth
venge after two years of forced Army's advance continued at
grovelling before the Axis armis- lightning speed. A contingent of
tice commission. New Zealanders had _ reached
It has been, and still is, a tre- Sirte, 100 miles west of El Ag-
mendous job to remobilize, reor- heila, on the road to Tripoli. It
ganize, re-equip and retain the seemed obvious that Rommel was
huge French forces available for .> not prepared to make a stand
fighting. The job is almost equal much short of the Libyan cap-
to the reconstruction of German ital.
armies after the Versailles Preaty, The Far Eastern theater of war
except that in many cases the suddenly came to life in a new
Axis commissions made their de- FOR every AB G
B BAG, PACK AND area this week when Gen. Sir
-movilization terms for the French
far more drastic and did a stricter
SOLDIER Archibald Wavell's forces in In-
dia crossed the Burma border
police job in seeing that the terms and advanced 60 miles in the di-
mee carried out to the finest de- rection of Akyab, a Burmese
tail. port. The purpose of the Bur-
CHEESEBOX ARMOR mese attack was evidently to
I've just spent a week with .these open up the Burma Road again
forces which, recently as Nov. and establish communications
7, possessed only sufficient strength with China.
and equipment for policing duties Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's
in the service of the Axis. Only Army on the Southern Russian
certain key officers, for instance, front renewed its offensive, pen-
had been permitted to retain their etrating deep into the German
Side arms; only one company in lines in the Don region, while
each battalion had rifles with fir- Joseph Stalin celebrated his 63rd
ing bolts; on all machine guns and birthday. (Page 4, column 4).
light artillery parts had been re-
moved. Most of this had been done MILLION POUNDS WEEKLY
by Italians who feared a possible Despite the bad weather in Af-
French colonial uprising and who rica, U. S. bombers of the Twelfth
hoped by disarming the French to Air Force kept up their pounding
pave the way for their eventual of the enemy. Working from make-
occupation of Tunisia—with or shift fields on mud _ that makes
without Hitler’s consent. Mississippi gumbo seem dry by
French Army lorries were even comparison, American bombers
dispersed throughout North Africa have been dropping high explosives
for use in hauling food and ma- on enemy concentrations at the
terials to ports and from there to rate of more than 1,000,000 pounds
shipment to Germany. What a week.
French armored forces remained— Results for the past week were
only a handful of light 1930 in- better than two to one in our fa-
fantry tanks and armored cars— vor. United States army planes
were kept under watchful Axis eyes. destroyed 24 enemy aircraft and
The Axis apparently believed it 12 of our aircraft were lost. Totals
had little to fear from this type of

A Fresh Arrival (Very Fresh)° Arabs Helping To

to date are 94 enemy aircraft de-
"cheesebox” armor, which even an stroyed, against 55 of our aircraft
anti-tank rifle could wreck, but lost.
nevertheless I've seen the courage- | Fighter planes continued on

Declares We Live in Paradise Sort Yank Mail

ous French guarding key mountain sweeps and patrols, escort and
passes and roads in these very strafing missions. Three American
Same cheeseboxes despite the oc- | pilots scored an impressive victory
casionally disastrous fire of the with their P-38s against JU-88's,
enemy. Germany's medium bombers. 2nd
CAMEL CORPS One Man Got 50 Lts. Robert J. Moffatt, of Detroit,
The French Air Force was not Mich., and Robert H. Woodward,
‘Continued on Page 2)
By Sgt. JAMES A. BURCHARD Letters at Once of Greenwich, N. Y., were each
credited with destroying a JU-88,
Attendez-vous, dogfaces. Fcou- then, all aboard. the C87 from Mi- land 2nd Lt. Lewis H. Gregory, of
tez-moi un moment. ami. The mail is in and all 1s for-
by | (Continued on Page 2)
Blessed Events For Did you ever see a pet lion that WHISKEY FIFTY BUCKS given. It’s been sorted and
| this week practically every man in
jumped into airplanes to meet pas- British Guinea—mud, sweat and
Fathers in Uniform sengers? beers. Town twenty - six miles
|North Africa has received at least

Can you imagine

down the
walking into) pass maybe
river and a one-day
;one letter from home. One Yank
|who was ready to divorce bis wife
Cussing of Marines
Shocks Film Censor
once a month. No
|aiter no news for three months got
The American Red Cross has} a beer joint on the Equator and dames when you do_ get there. |50 letters—at once.
been unable to reach a number of hearing a native pounding out Chief amusement was trailing a
fathers in uniform with the cabled "Fair Harvard’ on the piano? big anaconda to its water hole Thanks to the APO organization
news of the birth of sons and bomb to that has worked day and night | NEW YORK—Controversy over
Can you imagine any dope pay- and dropping a depth
daughters back home. Tiie Stars ing fifty bucks for one bottle of make him surface. now for weeks, mail that piled up the words “hell,” "damn” and
in ports in the British Isles, mail "bastard” in the British film "In
and Stripes is delighted to pass cut whiskey?
Belem, Brazil — not safe. The | that followed the troops from camp Which We Serve” has been ex-
on the following information:
To Major J. Boylan, 0352624, a What would you do li a rat gals knock you down and drag | to camp in the Uniled States and tended to the 68minute March of
son born November 21. Both fine. chewed on your hair while you ;you to their lair. Not even those jacross the Atlantic, even mail that Time film, "We Are the Marines”
To Lt. Berton Brown, a son,| slept, or a seven-foot snake draped |tough paratroopers would have a |was salvaged from the bottom of now playing at the Globe Theatre.
| Col. William T. Clement, who was
Robert Berton, born October 29.' itself around your ankle when you | chance. ithe ocean has been distrinuted.
shown directing shore batteries on
All well. |stepped into the shower bath? Natal, Brazil—the jumping off | TRICKLE OF LETTERS la small Pacific Island while the
To Lt. F. Roberson, Sr., 041526, No chum, you wouldn't cut out spot for Africa. Two botties of Three weeks ago letters began to Japs attacked, is a bonafide Ma-
a@ son born December 14. Both the cocaine or just wake up. The Brazilian beer, and you fight to trickle into North Africa. Pvt. Da- rine commander. Col. Clement says,
well, above little items are no pipe get on the first plane east. vidson got a letter from his sister |"Blow the bastards out of the
To Warrant Officer Lexie Fay| dreams. They are just a few of THE RITZ OF AFRICA that referred to spicy developments 'war,” but under the influence of
William, 21100280, on December 14,| the daily events in the life of a jin his home town that must have | the Will Hays office, the Colonel
a son born, James Lexie. Both} soldier whe Accra—Home of Wogs (natives)
fine. |the
travels to Africa via and the old chant, "Dash me, |been explained in earlier letters developed a sudden impediment in
back door—Miami, British mastah.” Dash, to you northern ithat hadn’t arrived and so was his vocal chords. The audience
To Sgt. Henry J. Burke, 6908560, Guinea, Trinidad, Brazil, the Gold |particularly unintelligible. Others |}can’t hear him say the bad word
on December 15, a son, both fine. Coast and dogfaces, means money. Principal
across the Sahara to stop on the Central African ferry 'did worse. Sgt. Don Hutcheson got | but easily reads his lips. The pro-
To Pfc. S. S. Kennedy, 32316701, Oran and Algiers.
son born October 26. Both well. | route to Maidugari, Nigeria; la Christmas card from a girl he ducers were also required to dub
To Lt. C. J. Paine, Jr., 0431035, |
You guys wouldn’t know much Khartoum, Cairo and Karachi, didn’t know. A private from Ar- | out the word “hell,” used by an-
about that. You were too busy in India. African beer with a wallop. kansas on K. P. received a Mont- other emphatic Marine, but an
a daughter, Beth Kirkley, born| |gomery Ward catalogue tnat had imperfect technical job resulted in
those English pubs. Red hot black jack games—no
October 17. Both fine. |been forwarded three times. One the marine saying "hell” in a very
To Sgt. Claude Wallace Elzy, As one of the equitorial travel- limit. Principal bars—The White
7041927, a son born December 12.| ers who did use the back-door House and Bucket of Blood. Sam, major got the return form for his| weak voice. The audience belly-
To Capt. Otis Jones, 0415623, a| route, let me discourse a page or the Piano Virtuoso, learned his city water tax. | laughed. Last week Time marched
When the mail freighter for ,on to the Hays office to appeal
ama born December 16. Both} two on U. S. Army life a couple stuff in England on a Guggen-
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well, of thousand miles due south. O. K., heim scholarship. He can play|Oran came to dock, Capt. Ray- | the ruling.
(Continued on Page 2) (Continued from Page 2)
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Tunis Country Like | Hold That Mortar!

Geologist's Nightmare G. I. Jive's on the Air
Glue your ear to the nearest
Airfields Carved out of Desert Floor radio for the new G.I. program be-
fiuning today and continuing daily
In Barren Land of Twisted Hills on Radio
medium wave.
Algiers, 318 meters,

The program will run each af-

By CHARLES COLLINGWOOD ternoon from 3 to 4 o'clock, with
30 minutes of news from home,
(Correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System) 15 minutes of spot news and 15
There is more to the war than;mountains another two thousand ; Minutes of G.I. Jive by courtesy
communiques. I have just got back | feet up. There are a few tents and |;Of Yank, the Army newspaper.
from a trip up the line to some|some airplanes. There is not a
of our American forward aero-/ building of any kind within miles.
dromes. I was up there for five/All it is, is just a piece of ground
days and I wish I could have/that it’s pocsible to land planes |
stayed longer. It’s better to be up| on. The boys who are lucky sleep
where they are fighting the war|in tents, the unlucky ones sleep ox!
Giraud's Rescue
than back in a headquarters town/in
where they are talking about
the open, the ingenious ones|
it.| make little igloos out of empty gas-
You have a different attitude to|oline cans.
Told by Wright
a war that you see than to a war For the last few days, most of
that you only hear about or read | the fighting on this Tunisian front | The story of how Gen. Henn
about. I suppose that the differ- | has been done by the air arm. BH Giraud, commander of French
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ence is that when you only hear! Tunis, Bizerte, Sfax and Gabes | |troops in North Africa, was res-
about a war you can’t visualize the | have all beer heavily bombed. This| |cued from Vichy France by sub-
men who are fighting. Up at the|bombing of the Axis ports is a |marine only the day before Allied
front the war is the men andj|very important part of our cam- | troops landed here was revealed at
what happens to them. |paign: it is the only way in which | | AFHQ this week.
I wish I could tell you about)we can interfere with Axis supplies| Twice before Gen. Giraud had
the men I have been with at the| once they have run the gauntlet ;made spectacular escapes, both
front, the kids who fly the P38's|across the Mediterranean. The times from German military pris-
on the milk run to Tunis and)| bombing is being done under the | ons. This time he escaped from his
Bizerte. It’s just about as hazard-|most difficult conditions. It sounds own Nazi-dominated country.
ous a trip as you can make these/al very easy in a communique, but | In command of the Giraud es-
days; that’s why they call it the |communiques don't mention home- cape scheme was Capt. Jerauld
milk run. These boys—these fresh-/|made airfields, mud that cakes on Wright, U. S. Navy. Capt. Wright
faced American kids in flying | a pilot’s boots like snowshoes; used a British submarine — the
jackets—are up against the cream/communiques don’t tell about the
of the German Luftwaffe—their|;crew that patched up bullet holes sell a same which landed an Allied party
near Algiers late in October—and
proceeded to a spot off the French
crack squadrons transferred from jin their A20 with empty ration
ic oast.
Corporal of the Guard! Corporal of the Guard!
the Channel coast—and these kids cans, hammering them out flat and
and their P38’s are doing all right.|then welding them over the bullet | “We were warned of all danger,
They're kids who left college to| holes. jgiven positions of coastal defenses,
joint the air force but who are THE WAY TO TUNIS mine fields, coastal air fields and
points of submarine detecting sta-
now wise in the ways of Messer- I have flown over a good deal of
chmitts and maps, or Focke Wulfs the country that our bombers fly
Fresh Arrival Arabs Helping tions,” said Capt. Wright. "1 was
and weather. I'd like to tell you on their way to Tunis and Bizerte (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) also given a full set of land maps.
about Legs Carlton and Virgil Lusk and Sfax and Gabes. It is like the With this information we left port,
—in other words, Lieutenants Carl- mountains of the moon — wild, depending on future orders and
ton and Lusk of San Jose, Cali- twisted hills like a geology profes- anything from Pass the Ammuni- mond Ferguson, who spent 12 years instructions to locate the take-off
fornia, and Santa Rosa, New Mex- sor’s nightmare. tion to Jingle Bells. Mamba snakes in the Los Angeles postal system | point.”
A bomber pilot knows he is at (one bite and farewell) and scor- and Lt. W. E. Jamison and their The submarine lay off the coast
ico.
SAMPLE PILOTS Bizerte by the two lakes which lie| POMS. Shake out your shoes in crew got to work. Within two hours of France for 7 days, submerged by
They were coming back from before it and the wasps’ nest of a on The den ri you may lose a they had employed 100 Arab dock day and surfaced by night. On No-
Sfax in their P38’s, limping back German aerodrome that is between . The day I left a friend killed workers to help un.oad the freight- vember 4, Capt. Wright received
200 miles, each of them with one the lakes. He comes on Tunis over |* %!8 Snake in the latrine. Pythons er and mail trucks were already directions to proceed to a certain
engine gone. Another pilot was fly- a mountain and there is Tunis be- |!" thewith
nearby hills. Swell swim- rolling teward the APO, jammed point off the French coast, where
with mail sacks from cabin to tail they waited for
ing top cover for them. The. three low him, all white and gleaming ming surf boards and nurses a _ pre-arranged
gate. In Oran a.one, there were binker signal.
of them ran into a whole flight beside the blue water. Sfax and|a ‘© beautify the landscape. Chow something like 5,000,000 leiters in
of German transports. In they went, Gabes are approached across O.K.,but bring your mess kit. Na- Shortly after they saw the sig-
the first mail ca:] and enough nal, a large rowboat came aiong-
two of them on only one engine. broader plain, a flat belt between| ve dances each Saturday night. packages to form a chowline in side. In it were General
They got 9 transports. Lusk, I the mountains and the sea. This} Maidugari—The Ritz of Africa. Giraud
every company. and his staff: Capt. Andre Beau-
think, got 5 of them. is all hazardous country for our| Best chow on the ferry route. Pi-
I have been visiting our most bombers and fighters alike. The|lots fly at night to have dinner fre, Army; Lt. de V. Hubert Viret,
MAIL SALVAGED
forward airfields — American air- Germans have placed their air heTte.
| Two pett leopards
; named Su- Navy; and a son of General Gi-
fields just as close to the front forces very shrewdly to counter|sie and Maglii (this means daugh- In Algiers, the APO, which raud. ,
as we can get them. They are not our blows. It is a great tribute to|ter of unmarried parents). Good handles mail not only for its own Tne next communication brought
very good airfields. Let me de- the British and American fliers| hunting. A corporal and myself area, but also for the batt.efronts information that a plane would
scribe one for you. It’s just a flat and ground forces that we are able |were attacked by a pack of dogs. of Tunisia, was swamped. But the meet them to carry the General
to bomb Tunisia as consistently|We killed four and had one bullet mail crews, most of them former and his staff to General Eisen-
piece of desert floor several thou-
sand feet high surrounded by and as heavily as we do. left when the others turned tail. civilian postal employees, routed hower.
Ress ns Mice neithr, Mase Knees still shaking. out the mail with the speed and "The plane was sighted on the
efficiency of a sausage factory. northern horizon,” Capt. Wright's
° Fort Lamy, French Equatorial

Holiday Shows
They also tack.ed the job of dry- account continued. "Although the
Reporter Finds Africa—Big U. S. Air Force camp. ing, deciphering and dispatching sea was very choppy, the plane
, (Continued jrom Page 1) One officer (a Princeton University the mail that went to the bottom made an excellent landing. The
| junior) and four men shoot most when a convoy freighter was tor- passengers were immediately bro-

For Enlisted Men

| eassltne but also suffered the hu- |0f their meat Just outside the door. pedoed. The torpedo had hit the ken out. We were in the process of
' miliation of having al! its airfields| We got a wild boar twenty feet stern of the vessel, where the mail launching collapsible boats when
ploughed up and its hangars dyna- |from the barracks, firing from in bags were stored, and some of an unidentified plane appeared on
mited. Southern Tunisia is dotted |bed. Crocodiles galore—one guy them tumbled out of the gaping
the horizon. All personnel were
with such relics of a shameful |spears them using a flashlight at hdle and sank. Most of these bags
Vaudeville Comes armistice. Even the famous, albeit |night and dugout canoe. No were salvaged and de:ivered to the
ordered below at once in prepara-
tion for a crash dive. The plane,
slow moving Camel Corps which |dames, but some American beer. Algiers APO.
To Oran, Algiers operated through the Sahara, was |Swell radio receiving set on which |Suill unidentified, circled
As for outgoing mail, the volume for about 20° minutes before dis-
the area
ordered disbanded and the Italians | football broadcasts can be heard.
was stepped up last week by the appearing to the northward.”
demanded the death penalty
"The Follies of 1943,” a song and several Camel Corps officers who|the rainy season. Killed two. Leo-
for|Snakes try to get indoors during fact that almost everyone had at When it was out of sight pas-
dance show staged by professional least one letter to answer and then sengers and baggage were trans-
entertainers who once performed took their sections out into the/pard tracks across the front yard. by an official memorandum that ferred to the waiting transport.
desert to live as marauding bands
in Jarge European music-halls, in- until the Allies arrived gave December 14 as the last mail- "On the afternoon of November
to free AND MUD ing date before Christmas. In 7,” said Capt. Wright, "some hours
cluding the Follies Bergere in them. , ;
Paris, will have its first night in Deep in Southern Tunisia, bor- a Belgian Congo — some APO's, crews worked 16 hours before the operation for the liber=-
Oran on Christmas Eve. The pre- dering on Tripolitania, the French ~" a straight, taking time out to open ation of French North Africa was
mier of this eye-opener for troops had a desert Maginot Line called} A Plane, leaving Accra for Oran "C” rations and catching s.eep ito be launched, we delivered Gir-
in and around Oran will begin at the Mareth Line. It, too, was part-|—Non-stop flight, 1,800 miles. on a pile of mail bags. aud to Eisenhower.”
7:15 o'c:ock at the Municipal The- ly demobilized, although it’s now Desert, and more desert. Passen-
ater, Place Armes. AIR TRANSPORT DELIVERY
being turned from Tripotitania to- gers sleep sideways, stacked like
Thereafter, performances are ward Tunisia by Axis engineers firewood. Most of the room occu- Now al) fiail and small parcels Weather Slows
booked twice daily through New in order to protect Rommel’s back. pied by a jeep. Bridge game 10,000 are going home by air transport
Years Day, with matinees at 2:16 One thing more the Axis armis- feet up, crossing Atlas Mountains. especial.y commissioned for the (Continued from Page 1)
and the evening show at 7:15 tice commission did with insidious |One plane wrecked in desert. It purpose. Until the traitfic becomes
o'clock, Tickets will be on sale be- attention to detail and that was! was an A-20. Saw survivors back too heavy, these transport planes | Quincy, Fla., badly damaged an-
ginning today at 8 AM in_the to instill a sense of defeat and/in Accra. They said a native wo- which land in Miami, Fia., three other. One of the German crews
Red Cross Club, at the box office futility among some members of a}man approached from a caravan or four days after the mail is re- bailed out and was captured.
of the Municipal Theater and at once great and proud French|whetting a big knife. They turned ceived at the APO—wil: continue Dorsey, of Pittsburg, Kansas, flewS. During the week, Lt. Robert
the Special Services office in Bar- Army. machine guns toward her just in to carry both “free” and air mail.
clay’s Bank building. Prices are MORE RECRUITS case. But she merely slaughtered a Letters with air mail stamps will asquadron bomb-bay full of turkeys to his
for Christmas dinner. Lt.
scaled from 50 frances for the bald- Such Same
Seana was the Gincondition
te Allienof the
on goat and invited them to dinner. continue by air to Washington,
Dorsey had been warned by Major
headed row down to 10 francs for . ° e€ Ss - | Bi mon as .ossin: oat’s D. C., for fina) censoring and then
cheaper seats. rived. The . continuous reinforce- liver meee again by air to their destination. Joe Cunningham, who obtained
in the fire and; i
burning it the turkeys, that he would suffer
Booked as a preliminary for the
Christmas season is- Joe
ment of strong Ang.o-American
Bil:’s units, together with the increas- |)
|piack Everybody then had a bite. From this end of the world, the certain consequences if a feather
ice the pipe of peace in Ameri- APO's have a.so kept busy send-
Wonder Circus and Wild West ing, throaty roar of Allied aircraft can Indian tribes on the birds’ heads was harmed.
Show, featuring genuine French ing half the merchandise in North Lt. Dorsey's chief worry had been
and the steady rumble of tanks : Africa from dogface to girlfriend that engine trouble might compel
cowboys, whiclr will play in the old and mechanized equipment east-| Oran—Mud. back in the States. According to him to salvo his precious cargo.
basebal! field, one block south of ward, convinced most, French Algiers (qt last)—Why, you sol-
Set. Isadore I. Kaminsky of the
St. Philippe Camp, on Rue Tlem- doubters to join their compatriots |diers are practically in paradise. Oran mail crew, one of whose jobs But he got the birds through in
cen. There will be two perform- who, without sufficient arms or| White legs twinkling along the is to see thet everybody says what good shape.
ances today and tomorrow, at 1:30 | aMmunition, were already leading |streets. rouge and now and then a
and 7:15 PM. he’s put in his package, the Yanks
the advance’ eastward. . Light |peroxide blonde. Thank Allah, |
To see the bearded lady, you'll French units in these early days /thank my travel orders and thank are sending home everything from
pay 30, 20 or 10 francs, and you actual-y reached the suburbs of|that plane. From
dates and figs to sandals and Red Cross Has
the equatorial fezzes. Most of the merchandise
can get your tickets at the ball Tunis and Bizerte, but had neither | sector, home of ebony natives and
park or inquire at the Red Cross. the strength to = their |heal, I have emerged
includes
into the and powder.
perfume, jewelry, shoes These Messages
A vaudeville and variety show, positions nor was Alli support | ‘ uber" ; 5
for enlisted men of the Allied near enough to consolidate them. sun. Who said war is hellt A‘so going home are reams of | The following men are asked to
Armies, will be presented at the But once again this part of the money orders. In Oran alone, the 'get in touch with the American
Algiers Opera House at 3 PM French Empire is mobilizing and APO sent out about one-haif mil- ;Red Cross, 10 Blvd. Baudin, Al-
Friday, Christmas Day. The pro- each day more recruits join the Grandson for Prexy lion dollars in postal money orders | giers, for messages of interest:
gram, arranged by the Special colors as each day more Alied in the first month of business... Cpl. Alexander M. L. Schneider,
Services Section, will star Mlle. equipment is passed over to them. which indicates that the American 33026405; Pvt. Walter R. Smith,
Agnes Capri, Parisian songstress, Each week more battle - famous ON THE WEST COAST — Lt. Army not only supports every 16053729; Cpl. John R. Miller,
and includes burlesque tumbling French regiments swing out from! John Roosevelt, youngest son of town it enters by. buying up every- 12025877; Pvt. Curtis A. Grienin-
acrobats, dancers and_ cyc.ists. their new training to join the! the President, and Mrs. Roosevelt, thing in sight, but then goes on | ger, 36227752; Pvt. Ben Shapiro,
Matinees are booked for 9 days never-ending procession eastward,| the former Anne Lindsay Clark, to put the United States oack on | 36343010, and Gibson G. Turner,
thereafter, with seats reserved for there to re-enter the fight for | are the parents of a daughter born its financial feet for the dura- =
Allied soldiers at 20 francs each. freedom. | this week, tion, :
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REPORTS FROM THE HOME FRONT

Concerning, among other things, an About food short-
ownerless cannon , a generalissimos age, the WAVES,
nephew, a Ne wfoundland fire, Candidates, MARS,
a newspaper strike, and a midwest mayor,
New York schools and liquor rationing
CHICAGO—A conference of food
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—A for- | WASHNGTON—The Labor De- processors was told this week that
lorn, decrepit cannon on the lawn partment reporied that 3,200,0u0 | the armed forces need practically
of the State Capitol here is the women were now working in war all the canned food available for
center of battle perhaps more heat- plan.s, represenung an increase oi | next year, leaving little for civilian
ed than any it ever saw in combat. more than 500,000 from last year. consumption. Most canned meat,
No one knows where the cannon One of every ten war workers now nearly all canned fish, most dried
came from, who owns. it or how is a2 woman. fruits and considerate quantities
long it’s keen there or exact.y what °° of frozen foods will go to the
kind of a cannon it is. Last week Army, it Was said
Ralph Coghlan, editor of the St. ST. LOUIS—Here’s one way to hl
Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote an edi- beat the transportation problem.
CHICAGO — Lt. Mary Dayly,
torial suggesting that since no After a frantic search, police found
| commanding all WAVES in the
owner could be found it should be a 20 thousand dollar Greyhound | | middlewest area, announced that
scrapped itor the war efiort. Two bus parked in a suburban resident- | five schovls have been established
of the newspaper's ieaders, Sidney ial district, 65 blocks from the ter-
| to train our sister fighters as me-
Stearns and Rass W. Riley, then at- minal whence it disappeared. Evi- chanics, metalsmiths parachute
tempted to have a wrecxer sevretly dently some prankish commuter, as riggers, phoiographers, acrograpi-
remove the cannon, but were ar- yet unapprehended, certainly knew
| er’s mates, control tower watchers,
rested. Coghlan was also arrested his stuff. line assisiants in air station ground
for allezediy instigating the remov- 7.
work and linktrainer operators for
al. Ali weie held on two thousand | | preflight aviation study.
CHICAGO— Mrs. Helen Albee, 31,
doliar bail for the attempted theit.
charged a tailor, Philip Kreischer, .
Gov. Forrest O’Vonnel maintained
with grand’ larceny aiter he retused NEW YORK—Municipal Court
that the state, not having a legal
a refund to her. She said her slacks Judge Charles Hirsimaki fined a
title to the cannon, couldn't dis- did not fit after seven alterations.
Broadway candy store proprietor
pose of it. He called Coghlan’s The judge asked her to don her
editorial "contemptous — filled slacks to show them to the court. |}named Savas Highland two hun-
with the spirit cf anarchy and Mrs. Albee disappeared and soon re-| | dred dollars bLecause Highland’s
disrespect for law.” H RE
: assistant sold a package of nucs
entered the courtroom in het slacks. ee $e. SN weighing a half pound less than
The judge said, "Ah, you certainly the weight on the label. It was the
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH look nice.” Mrs. Albee beamed and | There is no reason for running this picture except that it shows
first city prosecucion of the De-
—Peter Chin, Generalissimo Chi- withdrew the charge. Patti McCarty, Columbia starlet, who fills out the bathing svit in a partment of Market's campaign
ang Kai-shek’s only nephew, grad- nice fashion, |}against storekeepers giving short-
uated last week in the largest |
weight in Christmas packages,
elass of U. S. Army Air Force ca- NEW YORK CITY—John Wade, - —_—
many of which are advervised as
dets at an air navigation school in superintendent of schools, in his

American Ne wsreel —
especially for servicemen.
"southern United States.” annual report published last week, - a
said that when the schools opened
ST. JCHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND WASHINGTON~— Senator Arthur
in September, all were geared to
—United Nations soldiers and sail- the war effort and that secondary Vandenburg of Michigan, Govern-
ors gave their lives to save women scheols were preparing their stu- | od or-elect Thomas E. Dewey of New
in a barn dance fire here this week. dents for the armed services. The | xork and Senator Arthur Taft of
Local authorities said servicemen Army and Navy has helped rewrite The Navy's newest hero is Captain Eaward (Mike) Moran, Ohio have all announced that they
delayed their own escape to help many of the | skipper of the cruiser "Boise.” When surrounded by Jap ships he will not be a candidate for the 1944
courses, Wade de-
the majority of women attendinz ciaved. The | uttered the now-famous phrase, "Pick out the biggest one and fire!" presidential campaign. Taft with-
largest single effort
the dance to escape. The fire broke has been to make children air- |One of his officers relates that after sinking six Japs, Mike, an | drew in iavor ot Gov. John Bric«-
out in a Knights of Columbus ho- minded. English courses for young- ;ex-football coach, had only one comment: "Too bad they didn't er of Ohio.
tel and killed 99 persons and in- ev children this year include many | know football or they wouldn't have concentrated on a center play.” | >

jured 104. At least three American stories of airplanes and high |. . . Mrs. Albert Einstein was visiting California’s Mount Wilson | MILWAUKEE—Lt. Carl Ziedler,
soldiers were among the dead. school boys are taking pre-flight | Observatory and was shown the giant telescope with its elaborate 34 years old, who obtained a leave
wpeehiiiaees
aeronautics courses. Physical train- | equipment and intricate devices. She expressed admiration and awe. | of absence as the mayor of Mil-
JERSEY CITY — The Quarter- ing classes are stressing strength, | then asked what it was used for. When told the chief purpose of the waukee to join the Navy has been
master Corps records show that the alertness and stamina "of the sort | telescope was to determine the shape of the Universe, she said, "Oh! | reported missing in action.
average recruit is 5 feet 8 inches necessary to our Marines landing |My husband does that on the back of an envelope!” a

tall, weighs 144 pounds. and wears in the Solomons.” Juniors and JONESBORO, ARKANSAS —
size nine and a half shoe. After a seniors in high school are also be- | Lloyd Rebsamen manager of the
few months in the Army the re- ing given special courses to prepare |Send More Japs Jonvesbors Municipal Water and
cruit’s feet increase by half a size, them for induction by the armed Light Company, announced that
the chest measurement expands services. An anonymous Marine, guest-conducting the Walter Winchell | instead of a bill for December, each
and his weight goes up. It costs the column, related how Marine Corps oiiicers have the knack for consumer will be presented with
government 442 dollars and 36 cents |saying the appropriate thing at the right time. He wrote that in an equivalent amount in War
to suppert a soldier during his first BOSTON—Fire roared through | World War I at Belleau’ Wood, Captain Lloyd Williams was ordered Bonds and Stamps. Rebsamen es-
year. 5 two business blocks in the heart |;by the French to retreat before the German advance. Capt. Williams timated that the total Christmas
capes :
of the shopping district, injuring |replied, “Retreat, hell! We just got here!" Col. James Devereaux distribution would be around 26
NEW YORK CITY — Millions 34 Coast Guardsmen and eight fire- |was also quoted. When the Navy wirelessed if he wanted anything, | thousand dollars.
did without newspapers for three ‘men and causing about one million | the Colonel replied: "Send us more Japs.” ... Whenever Pvt. Melvin | 7

days last week when the New dollars worth of damage. Tne fire Ladenoff gets a furlough he always returns to Roanoke, Ill, and) WASHINGTON — Paul V. Mc-
York City Newspaper Delivers and started in the basement of Salling- | resumes his civilian job. Ladenoff, who is a cook at Camp Stoneman, | Nutt, chef of the Wartime Man-
Mail Detivers Union, an independ- ,ers Women’s Clothing store, swept |is also the Mayor of Reanoke. . . . Kathryn Gregory has been served power Commission announced that
ent organization, went on strike. |to the ceiling and soon spread io | with "other than an honorable” discharge from the WAAC’s for appear- he would ask Congress to merge
The strike came after the failure | an adjoining bakery. Eventually jing as a strip tease performer in the Casino Theatre here. She was | the National Youth Administration
ef negotiations which lasted more five alarms brought 600 fireman, | billed as "Amber de Georg, exotic glamour girl direct from Hollywood.” with the commissions training pro-
than a month to obtain a new plus 270 men from the Coast Another WAAC saw her picture in front wearing a sarong for a so- gram for war work. He said he
contract from the Publishers asso- |Guard, to the scene. They were called "Samoan love dance.’ A board of three WAAC officers tried would also ask the repeal of laws
ciation. The New York newspaper |forced to work in relays because of |her and their decision to discharge her was approved in Washington limiting NYA training to no
PM, which has an independent de- ‘exhaustion from the thick smoke. youths over 20 years of age. He
livery system and was not affect- |The fire had to be fought almost also said that there was a plan
ed by the strike, printed a digest entirely from ladders high above | Rabbit afoot to train 250,000 members of
of the leading newspaper comics the snow-covered streets. This was the armed forces in colleges.
so that millions of fans could fol-— the third big fire in Boston within } All New York City policemen who assist in emergency births are Minaiiiiti
low the doings of Bondie, Super- ;a month, the last big one being the {immediately inducted into the Department’s "Rabbit Club.” which
man and the others. The strike | blaze that burned the Cocoanut {now numbers 8&9 members. Each inductee buys cigars for the mem- WASHINGTON — The Marine
ended on its third day. 'Grove night club. | bers, but the club was forced to break up into smaller geographical Corps was reported to be consider-
units because there were too meny cigars for each man to buy. ing establishing a women’s reserve,
One policeman who twice played stork recently became a father but was struggling with the prob-
himself. When the nurse informed him, he promptly fainted. lem of what to name it. The pres-
Houston, Texas has more than gone overboard in efforts to see that ent favorite is MARS, representing
another cruiser “Houston” sails again to replace the one sunk by) the initials of the Marine Auxiliary
Japs. The drive for 36 milion dollars to pay for the new cruiser| Reserve Service. Another plan
now being built on the East Coast has been oversubscribed by 2 million |}afoot is to ask the Navy to turn
dollars, The funds will constitute the city’s Christmas gift to the Navy. over some of their WAVES.
- *

SAN FRANCISCO—Neil John-

From Hollywood ston, chief guard at a war plant
here, has found a way to combat
Jimmy Durante was recalling on his trip to England a few years} sleeping on the job. The last two
ago, when he was offered 30 thousand dollars to appear in a film with | men found snoozing, both of them
singer Richard Tauber. It was an unhappy experience for Tauber, | welders, are in the Army now.
|who said, "I cannot understand why I should be paid less than a |Johnston says the draft boards are
man who pronounces ‘these’ as ‘dese,’ ‘those’ as ‘dose,’ and ‘them’ | ready to cooperate.
las ‘dem.’” Gasoline rationing has compelled many Hollywood| °

bigshots to come to work on busses and streetcars. Sid Grauman, | RALEIGH, N. C. — Statewide
one of the tewn’s picneers, who has a theatre named after him, liquor rationing has begun here,
asked a pedestrian, "How can I get to Hollyword Boulevard and | under the coupon system. The ra-
Vine Street?” . . John LPecker, the artist, in a recent “Esquire” tion is one quart weekly until
tells his reminiscences of the late John Barrymore, the "unpredictable | February 1, thereafter one pint per
profile.” Barrymore’s breakfast consisted of crushed ice on which! person.
brandy had been poured. Barrymore said, "The brandy sticks to the -

ice and doesn't jar the stomach.” Once when a radio sponsor asked FORT BENNING, Ga.—Ambrose
the toper if he'd ever tasted their milk, Barrymore replied, "I’ve had OConnel, first Assistant Postmast-
just one glass of milk in my lifetime and it turned into a suede er, said that ample postal facilities
glove in my stomach. But don’t let that deter you. It might make had been established at every U.S.
a good by-product for yvour company.” ... ”A Missien to Moscow” is Army post office the worid over
among the important pictures now being filmed in Hol'ywood. Walter to care for the record mail ex-
Huston is plaving Ambassador Joseph Davies and other acters are pected this Christmas. Speaking at
portraying Stalin, Haile Selassie, Laval and Von Ribbentrop. Ambassa- a cornerstone laying ceremony at
dor Davies is in Hollywood watching the production and enjoying it a new Army post office here,
immensely. . . . Mary Astor won an uncontested divorce from her O’Connel said that there were lit-
third husband, Manuel Del Campo, a Canadian RAF pilot. Her chief erally thousands of experienced
complaint was that Del Campo had called her a nuisance and insisted Army postal officers and trained
she "go places” with him when she was all tired out after working experts engaged night and day
"Rommel and our son in North Africa and OUR SON writes home at the studio. "He called me a nuisance because I did not always want throughout the world in expediting
for bedroom slippers!” | to go out,” she said, = our wartime mail.
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THE STARS AND STRIPES MAIL —

om,
Me -
THE HITCH-HIKER
V. S. Army Newspaper Published Weekly in Africa,
The Stars and Stripes is edited and published by and for the
}
pérsonnel of the U. S. armed forces in North Africa, through the| CAI &
combined facilities of The Stars and Stripes and Yank. Printed by |
I,Echo D’Alger, 20 rue de la Liberte, Algiers. Mailing Address: 10 |
Boulevard Baudin, Algiers. Telephone: 248.28. Contenis passed by Dear Editor:
the U. S. Army censors, I've heard a lot of guys ‘in North
STAFF Africa griping about the grub they
Publications Officer, E.T.O. U.S.A. Major E. M. Llewellyn get. What do they wani—caviar?
Publications Officer, A. F. Hq. Lt. Col. Egbert White | I happened to meet an Eng-
Publications Officer, A. F.Hg. Capt. H. A. Harchar lish-speaking civilian and he in-
Editor ist Lt. Robert Neville vited me to his home last Sunday
Editorial Staff: Sgt. James Burchard, Cpl. Milton Lehman, Sgt. for dinner.
Peter Paris, Pfc. Gilbert Sweeney, Pvt. Milton Berk, Cpl. Ralph Mar- He explained in advance that
tin, and Tech. Sgt. G. K. Hodenfield. 'I was not to expect a feast but
Vol. 1, No. 3 apc haan ~ December 23, 1942 he would provide the _ best he
could. When I arrived, I could
see by his imposing home, fur-

Merry Christmas hnivure and clothes that this was

a family of means.
Yet, the Sunday meal consisted
;}of soup, boiled vegetables, a few
Pass the Turkey |tiny pieces of meat, ersatz coffee
land wine. He told me that the
THE WAR DEPARTMENT has published a menu of the Christ- ineat was a special treat in my
honor and was their week's ra-
mas dinner which, whenever possible, will be served to the United tion. Even all the dough he evi-
States soldier this December 25. It sounds terrific: fruit cup, cream of dently has couldn’t buy a decent
celery soup, roast young turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry- meal.
‘nen 2 auve tin enue east
orange relish, celery, olives, pickles, radishes, snowflake potatoes, late bars I had brought he al-
i
green beans, tomatoes, corn pudding, hearts of lett
lettuce wiwith Russian
; most
i swooned fe
cues in Yad
ecstacy!
anaes The
ie
dressing, hot rolls and butter, mince pie, ice cream, spice cake, |one and one-half years.
grapes, oranges, apples, mixed mints, hard candy and coffee. I resolved that I'd go back to
jmutton, hash and sea-gull with
THE DEPARTMENT ADDS to this menu the warning that ny ee a ES Se =
naturally such a feast may not be possible in every remote corner of takes all summer and know that
the world where the American soldier is now stationed. Without | Were juckier than lots of others
consulting mess sergeants in advance, it’s quite probable, for in- , Yours,
stance, that some of us may get spam and spuds instead of turkey Pvt. EDWARD ROBINSON
and dressing. It’s more than likely, too, that we'll be hanging up |
our GI shoes in Christmas Eve not for a visit from Pere Noel but|
7),
Hash /lMartes Stalin's Birthday Present:
to dry them off and scrape off the mud before a Christmas polish|
can be applied.
bringing
In that case, a Merry Christmas to the convoys | Reatithen-s elie tems 4 theeed
guns, ammunition, tanks, trucks, planes and more and more City firm asking for all available
A Big New Offensive
men. All the giblet
-
gravy in the world in 1942 can be traded for goods
SP0rtingstore cartridges, a sporting
proprietor who felt the
more good news in 1943. war shortages wired back: Praise MOSCOW — It was the 63rd category compared to the holiday
: the Lord, but I can’t pass the am- birthday of Joseph Stalin. It was the two great armies were having
Back in the U. S. A. munition.” Dec. 21, the shorvest, blackest day northwest and southwest of Stal-
. . . . . aa
of the year. It was, moreover, bit-, ingrad. In one day those - relief
FROM HOME THE rews this Christmas is curiously interspersed| Louis Vanchiro, a mason’s help- ter cold on the steppes of the Don! armies sent a good 12,000 Nazis to
and the Volga, but it was the kind whatever Valhaila Hitier nad prom-
with items about war production and rationing. Among other things, |®™ working with the New York of weather the Russians like best ised them, The booty ran into hun-
|street repairing crew, is the kind
there is a shortage of Santa Clauses, caused no doubt by the fact |of a guy that would tie tin cans when fighting the Nazis. dreds of guns, thousands of lor-
that so many men are wearing olive drab instead of the red-and- The news on this brisk birth-| Ties, a thousand railway wagons,
ito dog’s tails. Each morning he
day of the Russian leader was that 40zens of ajrcraft and thousands
|solders a nickel on a nailhead and
white suits and the flowing grey beards of St. Nicholas. Down in ‘umoshenko, the Bessarabian peas- | Of machine guns.
|drives it into the temporary wood
Florida, it seems, one Santa arrived for a Christmas party in a jeep |flooring over the sidewalk being ant’s son turned marshal, had be- | RUSSIANS ADVANCE
All day long he and his gun anew anh offensive to drive the
instead of a sleigh, thus giving a timely military touch to Yuletide lrepaired.
buddies have a good laff watching Nazi once and for all from the
Stalingrad was not fully relieved.
| The Germans are still in a part
festivities. In New Jersey the wife of a department store Santa Claus |pedestrians trying to pick up the city of Stalingrad. Already Timo- of the city, cut off with communi-
|coin. He says: "Well dressed wo- shenko had partially lifted the |cations (except by air) with the
took her husband’s place, just as all good wives at home are doing in }men give us the best show. First siege of the city. It now. seemed
rear, hounded on four sides by
the war emergency. Hollywood, which usually does things in a spec- they stoop to pick up the nickel virtually certain that the en- the Red Army. But this week the
trapped Nazis still hovering in iso- Russians
tacular way, has apparently dispensed with both Santa Clauses and real then they take off their gloves lated clusters on the steppes would
penetrated even deeper
and try again. When this fails, |into the region of the Don and
Christmas trees. Instead of either, the film ‘capital’s main boulevard they give a tug at their girdles be wiped out. even cut the railroads feeding the
was lined with 18-foot high Christmas trees made of papier mache. and dig at the nickel with a hat- BRUTAL BATTLE city of Rostov, at the mouth of the
pin or nail file.” The world has never known a river. And at the same time they
i ae were attacking on the central-
battle more brutal than that of
Damon Runyan has just dis- Stalingrad, now well in its fourth front around the cities of Moscow

Parlez-vous Francais, Soldier?

covered the latest technique used month. The nobility and sacrifice and Kalinin and Rhzev.
by draft board doctors in exam- of the men who fought in that | The biggést battle of the year
cemetery of a.city were incredible. at Stalingrad, however, was more
They went without sleep days on than a mere military engagement.
‘Second in a series
of French lessons issued by the Special Service end. They lived without food and There was deep symbolism here.
Section, AFHQ.) water. Sometimes they even went Hitler would have given a lot to
LESSON II without ammunition and simply, crush the symbol of Stalingrad,
our—notre (notr); Plural: nos (no); your—votre (votr); Plural: vos threw bricks. That happened more} named for the Soviet leader. Back
(vo); their—leur (ler); Plural: leurs (ler) than once. Last September and in September he told Field Mar-
The Plural must be used if the following Noun is in the Plural, October the capture of a tiny) shal Feodor Von Bock that: "Stal-
<-375
our brother—noire frére our brothers—nos fréres building was equivalent to a gain’ ingrad must be taken at all costs.”
ining selectees. It seems all the on any other front of 50 miles. In October he said it would be
your sister—votre soeur your sisters—vos soeurs medics do now days is touch you
their uncle—leur oncle their uncles—leurs oncles It was at the moment when the taken.
.. . if you’re still warm you're in.
from our door—de notre porte to your hotels—-a vos hotels suiecnitiiainsiala Allied forces landed in North THE ROAD BACK
at their table—a leur table of their friends—de leurs amis Typographical Error Dept: The Africa that Stalingrad first struck! Von bock tried hard enough. He
Ou est vitre maison? Where is your house? church editor of the Staten Island back. One relief army whipped| tried with Goering’s stukas and
Notre maison est 1a. Cur house is there. Advance received this notice: "The down from the northwest and an-!| everybody's artillery and all the
Qui a trouvé les papiers? Who has found the papers? pastor will preach and there will other drove up from the south in men he could assemble. On the
J’ai trouvé les papiers. I have found the papers. be special sinning by the congre- the beginning of a giant pincers other hand, Stalin told Timoshen-
Qui a recu les letters? Who has received the letters? gation.” Tck, tck. And in church, movement. In Stalingrad itself ko:
Vendredi, beaucoup des soldat ont Friday, many soldiers have Te- General Rodimstey started gaining "There is no road back from
too.
recu des lettres. ceived letters. aaa back lost ground, street by street; Stalingrad.”
we have—nous avons she has—elle a Then there’s the _ soldier who and alley by alley. They bumped | It was a beautiful, but inréacur-
they thhave—ils ont (masc.) I have—j‘ai bought the nifiiest wallet ... one off 1,000 Germans in one day in’ ate phrase, for even now Stalin
thou hast—tu as they have—elles ont (fem.) covered with swell Arabian de- the streets of Stalingrad—more’ would be pleased with the correc-
he has—il a you have—vous avez signs and hand tooling. After than half as many as we lost on tion: "There is a road back from
my—mon, ma, mes (mong, mah, his, her, its—son, sa, ses (song, bragging about it, his buddies ex- the African operation. But that. Stalingrad, and the Nazis are tak-
may) "
amined it and found a printed was strictly in the minor casualty, ing it.”
thy—ton, ta, tes (tong, tah tay) sah, say)
slip reading: Made in_ Boston,
mon, ton, son are used if the following Noun is MASCULINE
SINGULAR Mass.
Se ees
ma, ta, sa are used if the following Noun is FEMININE SINGULAR Poker is getting to be a form
mes, tes, ses are used if the following Noun is PLURAL (for both
mas. and fem.)
my sister—ma soeur
of higher mathematics over here.
Sit in on any game and you have gC POETS CORNERED
my brother—mon frére to use a slide rule to figure out Mor off pres pity ect tt
his (or her),.sister—sa soeur her (or his) brother—son frére _ Shadtioyesdt eck tocanceibed & Linge
how much who owes who. Besides dates N Poe, St Pperestad Feels:
my brot!*ers—mes fréres his (or her) sisters—ses soeurs
Note that SON FRERE means HER brother as well as HIS brother and
the mere
and
complication
centimes, the
of francs
fellows still Sep
nD ed

that SA SOEUR means HIS sister as well as HER sister because these
carry around dimes, nickels,
words are masculine or feminine according to the following noun.
my — — his father—son pére
quarters, pennies, shillings, etc., Sweatin’ Beep Peep The Jeep
my hat—mon chapeau $i which add to the confusion. And
my room—ma chambre her mother—sa mére just like our dimes and nickels . . You sweat a line to wash your A jeep is a beep is a peep
face, That runs with a kangaroo leap.
her pencil — son crayon (kray- his pen—sa plume the French coins have been named
"vint” for the 20 francs, "sink” You sweat a line to feed it; It hops in a bound
yong) her hats—ses chapeaux (chappoh)
mon, ton, son are used before words beginning with a vowel or an ”"H” for the five francs, note, “Ike” You sweat a line to buy a book, Six feet off the ground,
mute, even if the noun is feminine; as, for the 100 franc note which And there’s a line right there to That jittering jiving jeq.
carries a picture of a native and read it.
my friend—mon amie her address—son adresse Many’s the obstacle course
her uncle—son oncle his street—sa rue “fruit” for the 100 franc note,
showing an abundance of the You sweat a line to get a pass, Not run by man or by horse.
NOT is translated by the two words, NE—PAS. PAS always occupies the You sweat a line to use it; The jeep without wheeze
seme place in the sentence as the English word NOT, and NE (N’ only stuff. It’s all confusin’ but very
before a vowel) always precedes the verb; thus, amusin’... especia!ly when you’ve You sweat for this and sweat for Takes each in a breeze,
won, and it looks like you'll have that, To only the driver’s remorse.
I have not—je n’ai pas he has not—il n’a pas
to hire a porter to carry away And you cuss if they refuse it.
we have not—nous n’avons pas § You have not—vous n’avez pas your winnings.
There’s nary a job jeeps shirk;
they have not—ils n'ont pas they have not — elles n’ont pas
ae You sweat a line to get your pay, They'll work like creatures ber-
(fem) 5 serk
ag: he not—n’ai-je pas (nazh has he not — n’a-t-il pas? (nah A German propaganda broad- To see how much you're gettin’;
pa teel pah) caster recently predicted that "the Then you sweat the cubes, usually Their big job I guess
Yanks are going to be defeated.” lose, Is giving the press.
have we not—n’avons-nous pas have you not—n’avez vous pas
Brown He’s a little late with that one. So there’s four more weeks of Some news when the censor’s at
Good morning, Miss Brown—Bonjour, Mademoiselle work.
Good evening, Mrs. Smith—Bonsoir, Madame Smith The World Series ended a couple tin’.
Where is the postoffice—Ouw est le bureau de poste
o_o!
“ of months ago. h. a. bh Staff Sgt. Donald Davis Sgt. George P. Johnston
 STARS AND STRIPES Pere 5

“Dead” Flyer Allied Armies

Visits Legion, ~ Lack Nothing,
Finds |Mistake Says Admiral
Col. Harold B. Willis, of Weston, | Admiral Sir Andrew Cunning-
Mass., World War I pilot and’ one ham, commander of the Alhed
tleet in the Western Mediterran-
of the few surviving members of
ean, met the foreign correspond-
the original Lafayette Escadrille, ents reporting this theatre of war
paid an official visit last week to last week and gave them some iijea
the Headquarters of the French of the part the Navy hao played
in the North Africa operations. A
Foreign Legion at Sidi-bel-Abbes, veteran of sea warfare who com-
and there saw for the first time manded Britain’s Eastern Mediter-
his name inscribed in the Golden ranean fleet when the British were
Pook of the Legion as having hard-pressed to keep the Mediter-
‘died for France” in aerial combat ranean open to their shipping, Ad-
on August 18, 1917. miral Cunningham said that the
Col. Willis, at the time a serg- Allied tleet here now has “consid-
eant pilot in the Lafayette Esca- erable freedom of movement” and
drille, was shot down on that date an “‘inlinitely greater degree of
Bese
MES behind the German lines, and for control” of the Mediterranean
two months was officially listed than in days past.
AIR MEDAL: LT. E. F. UMPHREY Dz. F. C.: CAPT. R. M. RITCHIE AIR MEDAL: LT. LEO HAWEL dead. He received a “posthumous” | “ame success of the sea war in
citation in French Army orders— this area can be judged by the
not his first citation, incidentally, way the armies have been properly

84 Officers and Men of 12 A. F. in the Order of. the Day—and his supplied,”
name was placed in the book of jsaid. "I don't
Foreign Legion heroes
Admiral Cunningham
think the armies
who had are short of anything. Millions of

Get Awards for Part in Campaign

died tor France. jtons of stores have already been
After many attempts he finally landed in this area and you must
escaped from a German prison realize that it is a very big task,
camp, swam the Rhine into Swit- indeed, to do this from yorts in
zerland, and returned to the front, jthe United Kingdom and _ the
Three Get D. F. C.’s, Others Silver Stars and Air Medals When asked by the colonel com- United States. Sonie hundreds of
manding the Foreign Legion Head- jships of both the United States

Sergeant Gunners Are Also Named quarters if he

removed from
wished his name jand British Navies are engaged in
the list of dead, ;}supporting this area.”
Col. Willis replied, "No, it is my |_ Asked whether the Germans and
only claim to fame, and soon I | Italians were able to build up their
Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle,!enemy aircraft; although his plane|Capt. W. T. Duden, San Diego, wiil be entitled to be on the list.” forces in North Africa as tast as
commanding general of the received three hits which disabled Calif. The other day Col. Willis, at the | we were, the admiral said that at
Twelfth Air Force, announced this the starboard engine. The cour-|Lt. M. M. Coleman, Denver, Colo. request of the Legion colonel, first the Axis build-up was taster
week that 84 awards had been age, coolness and skill displayed by|Lt. E. A. Riley, North Webster, wrote after his name in the Gold- |but that now he thought the Ger-
made to personnel of the Twelfth| Capt. Ritchie reflect the highest Ind en Book: ‘Very much alive today, |mans and Italians were having
Air Force for heroic and meritori-| credit upon himself and the mili- | Stai, ‘Sgt. G. L. Bahr, Tendleton, fortunately. December 19, 1942.” |"increasing difficulties.”
ous service during Allied opera-| tary service of the United States.” Ind ‘Our submarines, our fleet air
Col. Willis was accompanied arm and our air forces are doing
panel in ey a. ap Rg AIR MEDAL WITH CLUSTER |Lt. A. J. Conley, Tulsa, Okla. on his visit to Sidi-bel-Abbes by well,” Admiral Cunningham
eants, Most 0 em rear yun 's, : wie |Lt. W. J. Webb, Fairfi E a. said.
Maj. Paul A. Rockwell, of Ashe- |"Axis supply ships or troop trans-
— named in the awards and ci- ‘Three officers qualified for the | Capt. J. B. Wakefield, — wy
ville, N. C., also a veteran of the ; ports are continually being sunk ”
: Air Medal and in addition re-| :
-% ii onally award-|Cived, the Oak Leaf Cluster, rep- a 9 Beapen, Sescnin, Foreign Legion, and _ brother of | Admiral Cunningham
Kiffin Rockwell, one of the found- }in |
said that
en. Doo € persona.
“|resenting a second award of the — this, as in other areas, the U-
ers of the Lafayette Escadrille and boats remain the greatest menace
e d medals to Cols. Paul L.!| Airaj Medal. They were 2nd Lt. Carl Lt. H.
Lt. W. G.B. Willis, Newark,
Johneon, San N. Berna-
J.
Williams, John R. Hawkins and W. Payne, of Columbus, Ohio, who its second pilot to die in action. |the United Nations have to meet
&. J. Davis, and to about 30/shot down an enemy plane over dino, Calif. _Col. Willis is now air liason of- |/and defeat. We have incurred ship-
others. Oran; Ist Lt. Charles C. Ken- Lt. A. H. Ivins, Provo, Utah. ficer on the Allied General Staff | Ping losses; but in general the sub-
Back of the awards lies the story) Worthy, Jr., of Shenandoah, Iowa, |Lt. V. Klump, Bartlett, Texas. in North Africa, and Paul Rock- }marine situation is in hand. Our
of night flights to enemy airports, 'who brought down an enemy air- ~ C. A. Christmas, Kemmerr, well is with the Twelfth Air Force. | sea and air forces are constantly
yo. Both served in the French Army |}at work and in frequent contact
of the transport of fighting para-| craft that was strafing ground
troops ahead of the last outpost, iThyng, forces; and Major Harrison R. |Major C. B. Collier, Baltimore, Md. in France in 1940, as well as in| with the U-boats, whose losses nave
of Pittsfield, N. H., who,|Lt. A. E. Heacock, Warm Beach, 1914-1918. ‘been heavy.
of the photographs taken above | Wash.
enemy fire in the harbor, of the while attacked by four enemy
|Lt. M. H. Cox, Dallas, Texas.
and fighters, brought down one plane
The Red Cross Stages a Hit
blasting of enemy tanks
/Capt. F. H. McColgin, Stillwater,
trucks, the pursuit and destruction and, on the following day, blew up
several enemy tanks and lorries. | Okla.
of enemy aircraft engaged in
troops, the Later, in the face of dangerous
lt. J. H. Champion, Chicago, Il.
strafing our ground
counterfire, he attacked gun posi- Capt. K. B. Benson, Denver, Colo. They didn’t know much about she dances, she makes funny noises
crash landing in a burning plane
tions and armored forces. |Lt. W. C. Reiss, Vera, Okla. French, neither the private first! and does pratt-falls all over the
and the immediate return to duty.
The Silver Star was awarded to Capt. W. M. Lively, Birmingham, class named Rodolfo Hinyo:sa who | stage,
FLYING CROSS AWARDED |Cols. Lauris Norstad, of Oak Park, Ala. got kissed on the foreheaa by the | Then there’s Gracian. from
‘ r e awards and Il., and John S. Allard, of Bronx- iLt. R. P. Foley, Hillyard, Wash. astonishing blonde, nor the crowd | Spain, who does an eccentric dance
ne
citations for one
the Distinguished, Ville, N. ¥. Colonel Norstad di-| Lt. J. R. Thompson, West Helena, of Yanks that have been coming | dressed in a wonderful green mos-
rected the initial tactical operation Ark. every night and twice on Sunday }quito net. When she moves she
Flying Cross:
of the American Air force units at Capt. W. A. Tesch, St. Joseph, Mo. to see "Welcome to Algiers.’ }moves all over in a most unusual
Col. Paul L. Williams of LOS/an airdrome near Oran. Colonel Maj. J. T. Thompson. But they got the idea right off.| fashion. There's Daxely, a bur-
Angeles, Calif., with the following ajiard assisted him. Both were CREW KESCUED The Red Cross has staged the hit | lesque comedian, with a long face
citation : ' cited for “aiding” materially in Other air medal awards were to of Algeria in its auditorium at 10/ like a colt that is much more ex-
"For the organization o1 the the American occupation of North Lt. Leo Hawel, of Seattle, Wash., Boulevara Baudin, Algiers. It dis- | pressive than your first sergeant’s.
Troop Carrier Command and more Africa. who rescued the crew of a B-26 covered the Turcy-Garnier troupe,| Daxely does a flower dance and
particularly for the organization; which is made up of refugees from | plays the guitar.
The Air Medal was awarded to which had crash-landed in enemy
and leading of an extremely dan-' Capt. Paris, Luxembourg and Spain and The Luxon acrobatic trio goes
George J. LaBreche, of territory; to Lt. Frank H. Don-
gerous mission to drop paratroops Springfield, directed by a business agent named |through physical exercise which
Mass., who crash- nelly, of Jersey City, N. J., his
over the extreme forward area on landed under enemy fire and re- navigator; and to Lt. E. F. Umph- Alfred Elkins who wears a woolly |ought to qualify the two girls of
November 29, 1942, and the suc- turned to the airdrome, where he jrey, of Flint, Mich., who reported camelskin coat. |the trio to lead a regiment of
cessful completion of this mission.' continued The original booking was for! WAAC’s to combat. You'll also re-
operations without in- | the crash of the B-26 and helped
Colonel Williams’ leadership and terruption; and also to Tech. Sgt. in the rescue of its crew. three performances, but the line|member Nadine singing ‘Music,
example were inspiration to the John outside looked like a queue for a| Maestro, Please’ for her big doe-
Burger, ot Jefferson, New "For participating in 25 opera-|
other pilots of his group; and his! York; Szt. Svend J. W. Hansen, of |tional flights in England and Al- PX on a transport six days out.|like eyes and the line that goes
courage and skill in the face of Ben Lomond, Calif.; Sgt. Orville S. igeria, North Africa, during which They extended the booking to 14 |“leelting melodies, regtime, jezz-
great danger reflect credit both Splitt, of Ripon, Wis.; Sgt. Russell |flights enemy performances—the last is Sunday | time, sweeng;” Honny Mousse, a
fire was probable night at 7—and will then take | kewpie doll who emcees in French,
upon himself and the military ser-, E. Ojala, of Quincy, Mass., and jand expected,” the following re-
vice.” their show to troops all over Africa.| translates her announcements into
Master Sgt. Joseph H. Switlik for lceived the air medal:
They'll even go to Tunisia if Hitler|an unbelieveable English and fi-
Col. John R. Hawkins, of San their performance as rear gunners | Lt. Col. Fred M. Dean, of St. will pardon the interruption. nishes up with "Hossat, boys?;”
while participating in a bomber ‘Petersburg, Fla., Major Deliven B.
Antonio, Texas, with the following About the blonde—her name is/|Collinet, the magician, and his
raid over Bizerte on November 21. |Avery, of Salt Lake City, Utah;
citation: Annette Elkins and she may be/splendid family, and the chorus
"For meritorious achievement} PARATROOPS TRANSPORTED |Capt. Frank A. Hill, of Wauwa- the wife of the business agent; | girls who dance in silver mesh
while participating in aerial flight! !posa, Wis., Capt. Edward G. John- we don't plan to ask questions. She | costumes.
Forty-two other officers and men json, of Enid, Okla., and Capt. wears a Tartan skirt and carries And maybe, if you sit in a cer-
and for exceptionally meritorious received the medal for the "per-
service in a position of great re-| formance of a particularly hazar- |Thomas B. Fieming, of Glendale, a parasol. She puts on a simulated|tain seat in the third row, the
sponsibility as commanding officer dous offensive transporting para- Calif. Hawaiian grass skirt behind a| little blonde will kiss you too—
of a fighter group upon its arrival troops into Tunisia on November "For meritorious achievement chair in direct center. She sings, M. L.
at an airport near Oran on No- 99 while participating in aerial flights 6: acted :
vember 8, 1942. Colonel Hawkins in the region of Oran, during the
displayed expert professional | The recipients: period November 8 to 11,” the fol-
knowledge, sound judgment and|! Col. S. J. Davis, Denison, Texas. jlowing were mentioned:
unusual energy in directing the Capt. F. L. Perrine, Twin Fal, |Lt. Thomas K. Taylor, Tulsa, Okla.
mission of his command in the Idaho. Lt. Earl T. Reichert, Ashland,
face of the enemy. His outstanding Lt. W. M. Massengale, Ada Okla- Ohio.
qualities of leadership aided ma- homa. Lt. s.erril) C. Wolfe, Elyria Ohio.
terially in the success of the Lt. R. P. McGaughey, Dallas, | Lt. Robert E. Corrigan, Louisville,
American occupation of North Texas. Ky.
Africa.” Lt. Wilfred R. Waltner, Jr., Kan-
Lt. R. A Fowler, Silbee, Texas. sas City, Mo.
Capt. Robert M. Ritchie, of Mor- Staff Sgt. J. A. Hartley, Gooding,
rison, Ill., with the following cita- Lt. Alvin Callender, Iota, La.
Idaho. Lt. John L. Ramer, Marion, Ohio.
tion:
Capt. R. A. Nowotny, Santa Anna, Capt. Charles E. Wilson, Mt.
"For extraordinary achievement Calif. Clemens, Mich.
while serving as pilot of a photo- Capt. C. A. Gibson, Jr., North Sa- Lt. James A. Isbell, Jr., Haskell,
graphic reconnaissance plane on a cramento, Calif. Texas.
photographic mission over Bizerte Lt. Berry Chandler, Galveston,
and Tunis on December 7, 1942. Capt. R. E. Lehr, Okeene, Okla.
Texas.
Upon arrival over the target he Lt. B. I. Woodhull, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Lt: Robert M. Lupton, Jr., Brook-
found a solid overcast, topped at Lt. C. A. Kizer, Dallas, Texas.
20,000 feet. Knowing that photo- Capt. F. J. Miller, Opportunity, lyn, N. Y.
graphs of the harbor were urgently Lt. Harry C. Strawn, Jr., Swiss-
Wash,
desired by higher headquarters, he Lt. R. O. Johnson, Jamestown. N. ville, Pa.
descended through this overcast to Lt. Claude C. McRaven, Maiston,
D. M 0.
about 8 to 10 thousand feet and
although he was aware that the Lt. J. M. Olbinski, Chicago, Il. Lt. Norman P. Thompson, Lor-
area was heavily defended by anti- Staff Sgt. G. L. Koeler, Upper raine, Ohio.
aircraft, accomplished his mission. Sandusky, Ohio. Lt. Leonard H. Brown, Pico, Calif.
Upon the return journey he was Lt. C. P. Henry, Charleston, Ml. Lt. Joe C. Byrd, Jr., Chilton, Tex-
attacked by an enemy ME 109 but, Lt. J. G. Flautt, Swan Lake, Miss. as. Long shot of entire cast of French artists at the finale of a show for
by effective employment of evasive Lt. W. M. Tharpe, Albany, Ga. A number of Purple Hearts were the Allied Forces overseas at the American Red Cross in Algiers, in
tactics, he was able to elude the Lt. W. W. Putney, Elm City, N. C. also awarded. Nerth Africa, Photo by Zeigler. AFHQ Signal Corps Photo
 Page 6 STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS
; :
W and M Best | ys Fe ‘Mauriello Kayos Durocher Signs
Nova in Sixth One-Year Pact
| A

Defensive Team “2

Georgia Gains 444 With Dodgers

Tami Mauriello, 183, Bronx, kay- |
|oed Lou Nova, 203, California, in|
Yards Per Game; |the sixth round of their scheduled |

Buckeyes, 420
115 round fight in Madison Square |
|Garden. The victory moved Tami
Agrees to Reduce
|toward the "Duration Champion- | Gin Rummy and
NEW YORK — Litile William | ship.”
and Mary, the Virginia school that | Both fighters were good, but! Poker Stakes
has been the surprise of the |Mauriello was the fas er. Nova, 'n|
Southern football season is the ithe pink of condition, nearly| NEW YORK — Branch Rickey,
best defensive team in the coun- | knocked out Manriello with a right president of the Brooklyn Dodg-
try according to the lavest figures }uppercut that floored him for the; ers. announced yesterday that Leo
issued by tne American Football | count of eight early in ‘© tirst| Durocher has been retained to
Statisiical Bureau. They have giv-| round but couldn’t finish him. manage the Brooks next year. Du-
€m up an average of 99 yards and
Nova pinned Mauriello in a neu- rocher has signed a one-year
Vetrvit is third with 1908. | player-pilot contract which is be-
tral corner in the sixth, took a
EAGLES YIELD 26.1 YARDS lunge at him but missed, lieved to pay him 25 thousand dol-
giving
Boston College leads the defense
Mauriello a chance to Slip out. lars, the same amount he received
against rushing, having given up Mauriello came back strong and this year.
an average 26.1 yards in seven) |eaught Nova on the jaw with a The contract contains a ten-day
games, nearly equalling the mod-}| | whistling left hook. With Lou stag- release clause, as did Rickey’s con-
ern record of 25.3 set by Santa gering, Mauriello drove a short right tracts with St. Louis managers.
Clara in 1937. The Eagles’ oppon-| .o the jaw. Lou fell to the mat, Moreover, Durocher agreed to ac-
ents
game,
have
gaining
averaged
89.6
26
yards
passes
a game.
a! Weighs SiPW
etc: ge
face downward, for a knockout. | cept Rickey’s training stipulations.
Hence B.C.’s total defense aver- a
Mtge
Nova was taken to a _ hospital) Last season the Dodgers were re-
age is 115.7, fifth best in the na-
* Saye - where ex-rays showed a _ broken puted to be baseball's gamblingest
tion.
Tete sane! rib, a dislocated rib, a torn cart- club. The Brooks favored “Lowball
ilage, and a possible injury to his poker”—-regular poker in reverse—
Georgia is the best offensive}
kidney. They are believed to have} with an eight dollar limit, and gin
team in the country, with a 444- resulted from terrific body blows | rummy at five cents a point. Du-

DICK WILDUNG
yard average a game. Ohio State's received in the fourth round. |rocher has agreed to reduce the
Buckeyes are next wiht 420, Tulsa stakes and the incidence of play-
has 414 and Boston College is last, Maurieilo is exnerte? to meet ing.
44. CAP-S\IN AND TACKLE OF THe Jimmy Bivins, Cleveland, or Harry | Durocher has also agreed to
TULSA BEST IN PASSING MIANESOTA GOPHERS Bobo, Pittsburgh, in the next round | cease his "umpire baiting” and ex-
The best passing team in the} of the elimination tournament to |cessive name calling that made
country is Tulsa, with 187 heaves, | HE HAS BEEN A |determine the duration successor|
the Dodgers baseball’s most un-
completing 106 for a net yardage | REGULAR SINCE His |to champion Sgt. Joe Louis.
popular players. Rickey regards
1,694. Georgia follows, 189 tosses, | FIRST GAME ASA Durocher as a good managerial
93 completed for the same yard- | bet since “Lippy” Leo led the

Redskins Topple
age as Tulsa. Columbia’s Lions are} Dodgers to an average of 94 vic-
next, 176 passes, 84 completed, | tories in each of the last four sea-
1,425 yardage. | sens.
Miami has the best defense, |
having yielded only 34 yards a|
Chicago Bears
Bill Pn
game. Tulsa is right behind with
36 and Harvard is third, 37. |
Tulsa is best in punting, 41.9)
yards averaged on 42 kicks. North| The Washingten Redskins com-
Carolina
kicks and North
40.5, 74 boots.
State is next,
Carolina
40.6 on
follows,
95 | pletely outplayed
Bears to win the
the Chicago
National Pro- Coach Of Year
fessional Football League cham-
pionship by a score of 14-6. The Bill Alexander, Georgia Tech.,

War Stymies |BASKETBALL RESULTS Redskins upset the Bears’ win- was voted the "Coach of the
Year,” by the annual World-Tele-
ning streak of 24 games and wiped gram poll of 180 football coaches
out the stain of 1940 when the in the States. Paul Brown, who

Winter Golf "

GAMES ! FRIDAY’'S George
Great
Washington
Lakes
54, Fort Meade
Naval 49, Ohio State
28.
46.
Bears crushed the Redskins by a
score of 73-0, to win the champion-
brought Ohio State the mythical
championship of the nation dur-
ing his second year, was runner
| ship.
DEC. It Harvard 63, Wesleyan 46. up. Harry Stuhldreher, one of
Bates 46, New Hampshire 36. Hofstra 53, Brooklyn Poly 31. The Bears took the lead in the Notre Dame’s famous Four Horse-
NEW YORK — The war has) Franklin Marshali 41, Juaniata 36, IMinois 36, Nebraska 27. men and now coach of Wiscon-
second period when Lee ' Arpoe
stymied the winter golf circuit, | Fredonia 32, Bufialo 41. Kentucky 61, Cincianati 59. Bear right tackle, recovered a Sin, was third. Henry Frinka, Tulsa
says New York World-Telegram| Indiana Teachers 45, Mlinois 39. Knox 42, Hlinois College 30.
fumble and ran 50 yards to a University, was fourth. The award
sports writer Joe Williams. The| Navy Pier 5%, Chicago 44. LIU 43, Brigham Young 49.
touchdown. Arpoe missed a try for is based on teaching skill. sports-
only remaining circuit fixtures are| Purdue 43, Wabash 28.
Richmond 33, Richmend Air Base 31.
Manhattan 62, Muhlenberg
Miami 50, Wabash 47.
59.
the extra point. manship; achievement, and influ-
the Miami and Pinehurst tourna-| St. Francis 38, Scranten 36, Michigan 42, Marquette 32.
Right after this score the Red- ence with the players. Alexander
ments. } Tennessee 48, Union 31. Minnesota 4%, Seuth Dakota 29.
Moreover, the best gate attrac- | Texas Christian 4%, North Texas 34 Mount Unien 42, Ohie University 36. skins scored on a fine pass. Sam- compensated for light players by
Williams 41, Arnold 49. New Hampshire 35, MIT 32. my Baugh, Redskin left halfback, using a baffling offensive, winning
tions—Sam Snead and Ben Hogan Western Michigan 55, Manchester 20. NYU 67, Fort Monmouth 3».
living up to his collegiate monicker. nine and losing only one game,
—are unavailable since they joined | Niagara 57, Alfred 31.
Notre Dame 53, Nerthwestern 31. "Slinging Sam,” threw a 50-yard to Georgia.
the services. Hogan won most of | SATURDAY’S GAMES Oklahoma Aggies 38, CCNY 32. pass to Wilbur More, right half-
the dough, but Snead had the DEC. 12 Penn State 36, Bucknell 22.
color. Hillbillyish Sammy is one} back, in the end zone. Bob Mas-
Fitzsimmons Gets
Rider 52%, Queens College 47.
of the game's longest and effort- Aberdeen Proving Ground 57, Penn 39. Roanoke 47, Bridgewater 27. terson, left end, then converted,
less hitters. Allegheny 43, Penn College 19. Rutgers 47, Trenion Teachers 35. putting the Redskins ahead 7-6.
The golf tour
Alabama 32. Flerida 26.
started during the Canasius 4), Akron 37.
St. Francis 4%, Newark
St. Jehns 56, Princeten 51.
Engineers 42.
The Redskins’ second touchdown Offer To Head
last war when golf historian Dick Case 52, Carnegie 0. St. Lawrence 52, Plattsburg 2%. came in the third period. Andy
Martin arrangeda series of Red Clark 43, Nerthwestera 41. Susquehanna %0, Swarthmore 28. Farkas, Redskin Greek tullback, Minor Team
Cross matches. Florida real
58 Brown es-| Clarkson
40,
70,
Connecticut
St. Michaels 53. Temple 6%, Lehigh
Vermont 38, Williams %6,
59.
carried the bail nine times and
taters grasped the opportunity to | Cornell 39, Grinnell 31. Villaneya 55, St. Francis 36. banged along for 43 yards to score.
advertise and offered pursers up | Creighton 47, Gardiner Naval %2. Washington 57, Moravian 44. Masterson added the extra point. MONTREAL — Fat Freddy
Dartmouth 55, Springfield 45. Washington Jefferson 5%, West Lib- hurler, has been offered the job
to 20 thousand dollars. Even top- | Depauw 37, Chanute Field 27 erty 49,
flight women golfers, so-called | Detroit 50, Hilldale 24. Western Maryland 54, Baltimore 18. of managing the Montreal Royals,
amateurs, were freely accommo- Duquesne 47. Salem %9. Westminster 44, Missouri Mines 36. Fitzsimmons, Brooklyn Dodger
dated at luxury hotels although | Eauclaire 62, Sicvens Point 31.
Ellis Island Coast Guard 5%, Yale 41.
West Virginia 65, Bethany
Wiscensin 3%, Camp
32.
Grant %6.
Cards'Beazley Chosen according to the Royals’ president
not playing for prize money. But | Fordham 41, Cornell 34. Hector Racine. As yet there has
a few years ago the Golfers’ As- |
Worchester Tech 54, Bates 33.
As’Rookie of the Year’ been no answer to the bird from
sociation disallowed that. | Fitz.
Racine said he had the highest
The golf tour i1s_ Strictly
American innovation and a fasci- |
an |
‘Cardinal Rookie Says NYU Harrier Wins CHICAGO—Johnny Beazley, the opinion of the personal qualities
nating part of the winter sports St. Louis Cardinals’ rookie hurler, of the present manager, Clyde
Show clinic from which future! DiMaggio ‘Best Hitter’ has been voted the "Rookie of Sukeforth, but he added that
masters emerged. Horton Smith, NEW YORK Frank Dixon, the Year” by America’s baseball Sukeforth lacks the requisite ag-
Ralph Guldahl, Paul Runyan, New York University freshman, writers. Beazley capped a 21-game gressiveness and has not won a
NASHVILLE, Tenn., (AP) winning season with two victories
Jimmy Demaret, Byron Nelson, Johnny Beazley St. Louis Cardinal won pennant though directing a _ fine
the six-mile metropolitan against the Yanks in the World|
Sammy Snead and Ben Hogan, in-| rookie who won two games from) team.
deed all the outstanding golfers, ' ihe senior cross-country championship Series. Fitzsimmons, 42 years old, has
New York Yankees in the}
won their spurs winter circuiting | World Series, says Joe DiMaggio| by three-eighths of a mile. Dixon's Johnny Pesky, Boston Red Sox) been in organized baseball since
The circuit gave the pros the is the best hitter he ever faced. | ime was 31 minutes, 16 and three- infielder, was runner-up in the} 1920. He crashed the majors in
priceless opportunity of Keeping | "He hasn’t got a weakness,” said| tenths seconds. Manhattan College voting, followed by Vern Stephans| 1925, joining the New York Giants
their competitive sharpness, best| Beazley. "He just stands there and dethroned the New York Athletic of the St. Louis Browns and, with whom he remained unti Ithe
gained by year-round playing. Now | doesn’t bat an eyelid. Sometimes| Club for the team title. Stan Musial of the Cards. Brooks brought him in 1937.
the annual 190 thousand dollar| you wish he would.” |
prize money has dwindled to 10
thousand dollars. Transportation
difficulties have become so acute
that it is probable that we will not
Navy Teams Can't “THE GOLDBRICK’
see the resumption of the winter
tour until after the war.
Play in Bowl Games |
iereepaieet |
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The}
Navy Department has announced |

Pro Champs Will Play that

were
Bowl
the preflight
forbidden
games.
to
cadet
play
teams)
in any}

Stars in ‘Bowl’ Classic The Navy said that the decision

was made because of two reasons:
the games would take the trainees
PHILADELPHIA — Elmer Lay-, away from their studies for more
den, former coach at Notre Dame) than 48 hours, with the trainees
and now commissioner of the Na- constantly being called to active
tional Football League, has an-| duty, plus the fact that transpor-
nounced that the pros are to have! tation difficulties would interrupt
their “Bowl” classic between the) the training schedule.
champions of the league and an
All-Star team picked from the re-
maining teams. Tennis Head
The game will be played here at
Shibe Park on Dec. 27 and the NEW YORK — Holcombe Ward
proceeds will be given to the New York, has been nominated
United Seamen's Service, which is for his seventh term as president
establishing national reception | of the United States Lawn Tennis)
centers for merchant seamen. Association.
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Ranger, Bruin Urges Beau Jack's Chief Shot Puts Can Provide
SPORTS SHORTS Player Reduction Snubs Promoter Pounds Of Scrap
Mike Jacobs
Branch Rickie swung his first The Toronto Maple Leafs de-
feated the Chicago Black Hawks, NEW YORK Lester Patrick, NEW YORK — When you own
big player deal since becoming manager of the New York Rang-
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (AP) —
president of the Dodgers when he 7-2, moving into a three-way tie a good boxer things can be mighty Sports editor Bob Phi‘lips, of the
for first place in the National ers, has aigned himself with Art rosy. Take the case of Chick
bought Babe Melton, righthander Birmingham Age - Herald, esti-
Hockey League with Chicago and Ross, head of the Boston Bruins, Wergeles, manager of lightweight
from the Phillies, for Piteher mates that more than 500 colleges
Boston. é in urging that the National title claimant, Beau Jack.
Johnnie Allen and 30,000 bucks. and at least 5,000 or more high
Po ee Hockey League player limit be re- Formerly Wergeles had to wait
Last year Rube Melton won 9 duced from 15 men to 13.
games and lost 20. hours outside the office of pro- schools and preparatory schools in
Pete Reiser, Brooklyn outfie der,
who led National League batters It is virtually impossible to ob- moter Mike Jacobs. Then, after the country sponsor track teams.
in 1942, will be inducted into the tain more players than that due Beau Jack ‘icked Allie Stolz, Jacobs He figures that nearly every co!-
The new boxing instructor at Army January 1. to the draft. The Detroit Red- beamed on Chick, wrapped nis arm lege team should have several
Fort Riley, Kansas, is wet) quali- aiiipiadion wings and the Chicago Back around him and said, "Come see spare 15-pound shots and prepara-
fied for his job. He is Sgt. Joe Hawks are the only teams having me Monday, Chick old friend.
Louis. The Southern Conference voted tory schools plenty of extra 12-
adequate personnel. Patrivk also Walk right into my office.’
—e—— to permit freshmen to compete in urges the elimination of overtime Chick slowly dusted imaginary pounders. If each school donated
varsity sports for the duration fol- play, since overtime involves lint from his coat and replied. at ‘east one shot, the scrap drive
The iegendary loyalty of the lowing a nationwide trend.
transportational difficu'ties, such "If you want to see me, come would be bolstered by at least 75,-
Brooklyn Dodger fans was again Genii aabas
jllustrated after first vaseman as missed and crowded trains. around to my office.” 000 pounds of metal, he says.
Camilli announced he would not
The Southeastern Conference
postponed until it Spring meet-
play in 1943 because of his inabil-
ity to find a competent foreman
ing, Vanderbilt University’s pro- Blondie ‘(By courtesy of Kone Features Syndicate) by Chic Young
posal to abolish athletic scholar-
to run his California ranch and
because he would therefoe have ships for the duration. UP TO my
edd tnintas AND
to run it himself. A hait dozen
fans, including a bronc#-buster The Detroit Redwings tied the
and two cattlemen, immediate y Boston Bruins one all in a wid
volunteered to help so that Camilli hockey game played in Detroit.
can return to Brooklyn. Leftwinger Carl Listombe gave the
ee eer Redwings the 'ead in 13 minutes
44 seconas of the first period with
With many of the leading box- a savage shock that took the
ers, such as Sgt. Joe Louis in the skates off center Jack Carveth and
fighting iorces, the Boxing Com- went into the net. The Bruins’
mittee has dec‘ared that it is OK | leftwinger Art Jackson tied the
to fight for championships, valid ;score in the closing seconds af
only for the duration. | the frame.
 STARS AND STRIPES

Ike Decorates Mr. Murphy a New York Coffee Queue

Not many items are rationed back home. There's a ration on sugar and gasoline; there’s talk about
@ meat ration; and bananas are definitely scarce. It isn’t that these items don’t -exist—it’s simply a
matter of transportation.
What hurts most is the rationing of coffee ... and here we see the greatest coffee-drinking people
in the world line up for "that” pound of Java at a New York coffee store. The queues can’t bother
them much. The new American ration permits them to line up just once every five weeks for one pound
of coffee per person,
Associated Press Photo

dee D. Murphy, who was the American diplomatic representa- Soviet Anti-tank R ifleman D fi nds Blockhouse
tive for French North Africa before Allied troops landed here, was
named last week President Roosevelt's personal representative in
North Africa, Mr. Murphy will rank as a minister. He will also continue
to be Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's adviser on civil affairs in this
theater of war.
Mr. Murphy last week also received the award, unique for a civilian,
of the Distinguished Service Medal. The award, made by the War De-
pertment, carried the following citation:
"Mr. Robert D. Murphy, Foreign Service Officer of the United
States and the Department of State for Distinguished Service to the
United States, in a position of great responsibility while serving with
the Army of the United States. He displayed exceptional outstanding
qualities of leadership, courage, and sound judgment under extremely
hazardous circumstances. Additionally, he rendered outstanding and
effective service by assisting in negotiations with French authorities in
North Africa by which hostilities locally were ended.”
AFH@Q Signal Corps Photo

Pills of Steel for Nazi Headache:

Inside a captured blockhouse somewhere on the central front, a Rus-

sian anti-tank rifleman keeps on the alert for German armored units.
Planet Photo

U. §. Paratroopers in Africa

: ore : a
ere tn Sask atta - U. S. Paratroop landings in Africa were made successful by scores of
During a recent raid over a U-boat base at Lorient, France, this picture was taken seconds after practice jumps, Inset: Jumper peers out of "jump door.”
the bombs were released for their on e-way trip to their military objective . Stars and Sripes Photo