European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 excess baggage this is an answer to 90 demoralized victims of an ambulance who they have a group of men to take place but these Are just excess from a lot of different Why do they break us up and spread us out and put men in our place who really Are the excess baggage we Are the excess having performed our duty to the Best of our ability for 10 months or in under trying being sent to the rear and placed in it is with this thought in mind army officials consider we will be Able to carry and five manpower shortage in the stars and i flays Navy charges misuse and i agree with Kilgore heres just one so far i have 40 months for the past 13 months Ive been waiting to be so far no Dice Ive been told i wont be assigned because of rank and mos which is 040 and 248 and in up to Date Ive been in six reinforcement some of them two and three seme for two months and others for two i Drew for travelling from depot to John breakfast hint the crackers in the Tennione ration make an excellent break fast All you do is Mash the heat the milk until warm and Ben yer operator operator x some of the common causes of Cable and Field wire Breaks Are fail to Clear wires when pulling off the Road onto the the men put the wire High it would help prevent practice of shooting insulators and wires in pulling out should remember to notify the switchboard operator that the circuit is no longer to be signal Are a wire team and often Are called upon to work for other out when we Lay our we give Good service and tag the lines properly in Case they have to be but when others Lay their lines in the Middle of the improperly tagged and then Call on us to repair that the time to some Crews dont realize How in portent communication is and let the lines Lay where they along comes a half track or tank and there goes the remember wire Crews a Good line is a Well serviced and Well tagged weary thai again what we want to know is come a censor can take things out of our letters and not return them if they want souvenirs we can sure show them a place to get of course the Jerries May throw a few shells while they Are getting them were sure they  mind and 7 disgusted so Wheeler thinks we can set up a democratic government in fascist Germany by getting rid of and that unconditional surrender is brutal and to say that we Are disgusted with Wheeler and those who seek a negotiated peace with Germany is to put it for the Security of the future world and so that our boys will not have died in let us fight this War through with unconditional surrender our enemy As our and seven railway quip of the week by Ivan theres been a lot of Bel tightening in Germany in the last five Back in 1940 the nazis thought they could Girdle the now there Busy trying to hold their own note to the Little its not True that one of the russian orders of the Day Lodz of love to Adolf from cause for divorce seeking a be a Toledo resident complained that whenever he asked for a second cup of Coffee his wife would pour it on his head instead of in his if you think you will be Lazy after the War you might make Boston one of your first a pet shop there advertises cats trained to scratch your just the thing for Winter moaned the Little Moron theres one Consolation about the if you cant get stripes above the Elbow just stay in the Eto Long enough and youll get stripes below the Al overheard in the you  Call him a handsome sol an editorial but he has an honest people would look at him and is that your face late comment on a recent news Gypsy Rose Lee gave birth to a seven Pound just a Little we tie eternal query of gis paying their initial visit to Paris is what is the Folies Bergere like to which Bill Pfrenger has his own description its Brooklyn burlesque with a no fils is about the Northern boys i remember it As kids we loved took out our flexible flyer Sand went belly hopping Down the made Snow men with packed it into round balls that caught other kids in the head and melted Down the backs of their when our hands got red and our feet got cold wed Call it a wed go to a hot fire and a Good scolding for getting our feet wed put on dry socks and shoes and eat hot Chow to take off the when we were kids Snow sure was theres lots of Snow on the Western front these the ardennes for whats left of Bastogne is like a Christmas the Trees Are like old Queens stoop ing under the weight of their Ermine the wires Loop from pole to pole like tinsel on a Christmas where the weight of ice and Snow has pulled them Down and the signal repair men Are Patch ing Snow lies smooth on the with Only Here and there a Lump come will stink to High its its but the flexible flyers have turned into the Snow men Are the snowballs Are the wet stuff trickling Down the Back of necks is often and when youre wet and numb with cold theres no place to go nothing to look Forward nothing but Beautiful note shoe Woollen Winter combat the things that make Winter a Little warmer and life More up there with the Joe the Large scale waste and Boondo gling charged at Senate investigation of Norfolk Navy Yard 23 of Large scale Boondo gling and appalling waste of material at the Norfolk Navy Yard were Laid before the Senate yesterday by members of its War investigating senators Mead and Fei Guson reported hundreds of persons Idle at the and others engaged in making things like hand carved an up front with Mauldin the stars and stripes printed at the new York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de icy the armed forces under auspices of the information and Educa Tion special and information Elysee contents passed by the army and Kay censors entered As second class at the Post new wader the act of 181 Wotta monster ornate a a special Oyster shucking table and jewelry for their Bosses or them who is chairman of the investigating told of a Paul Revere upon the approach of the would go tearing through one shop warn ing the men to look but the Senate committee appeared at the Navy Yard on Short notice last week and Mead Paul Revere did not have a Chance to someone doing Job the in response to press issued a statement reciting the 1944 construction and re record of the Norfolk Yard and saying someone has been doing the and an Overall basis the Navy is proud of accomplishments of the offi i a Irons i 1 folks at Home Send so of Sif John Morris that Reynolds Judith 4j Arthur 11 Max Sioux 1 pfc Edson Plain Leon 21 Clarence 19 John i 19 Salis Virginia 6 Robert Albert 10 Edward 27 Emanuel 18 Charles 17 John 12 Carlo Abraham pm 17 Kenneth los an 27 Leonard new 18 pro John c Darby Jan 14 Warren new York 17 Walter Ohio 9 William 10 Cpl Matthew cers supervisors and played in its production of Navy Bard said that besides but Loti ing new the Norfolk Yard has the outstanding record Oling dry docked and repaired during 1944 More vessels than any other Navy Yard anywhere else fan Tefr t in a letter to Ferguson on Bard discussed the report that Navy time and material Bac gone into the production of like he said such items had  recreational and similar to fir t total Cost he estimated at less thaa Mead said yesterday Thane while the armed forces Are a ribs National service should clean then i Only their arsenals and Navy Yaffe i but also their actual uniformed he said that there been too much evidence of waste manpower in after hearing the Meade Rhomb report on chairman Wab Dii of the naval committee said that there snot if be time today 1200 Uko summary swing spotlight junk june Twatt serenade Craf s s music news Gay Melton 13 Hope Newi Mulla diary record music news Blondie ref extra news Mark of map tomorrow Rise and Shine news news program 0130top Tea Mary album serenade Duff to ims 2301rnews