European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Tit stars and stripes flashes new l through the of the information and aft the Dijon str pet circulation i Rue Maree Hai Ruede stars and stripes on trial to the editor i feel sure that my personal Dis gust concerning the Continental edition of stars and stripes reflects a widespread principally responsible for most of the criticism i have heard directed at s and s criticism with which i have often expressed vehement agreement is the employment of the Only newspaper which has adequate Continental circulation As an Agency of the theater Public relations office your seemingly successful Back patting and scratching mail is a reflection of the tremendous influence which a newspaper with no Competition and it seems further to a reflection of How wrongly that influence has been bombarded with supporting arguments for one Point of the average longer sufficiently sup plied with contrasting opinion and accepts in All its connotations that Point of unless personal experience or information he is Abl to see the fallacies so blithely glossed i when the Soldier has come full Circle to he writes a and behold stars and stripes is Happy in the knowledge that it has from the beginning represented the average soldiers stars and stripes has become j the most effective poster of the theater and its use As a Means of publicizing the danger of Trench foot is a legitimate functioning of a newspaper but the reverence with which the stupid and hurriedly ineffective changing of replacements into reinforce ments was handled is the sure j sign of a paper with a Heel print in its head political instrument and its use As an instrument of political instruction is of the Low est Caliper imaginable the responsibility of any newspaper is not to meet Public taste on a Hearst an but to inform reliably a Public which has the even Tual Power to act it i enjoy the ramifications and implications of the Chaplin trial and cheesecake As much As any one but with the extreme limitations of space under which the paper it would certainly be far better to print significant Domestic news of major importance no liked to eliminate the but any Good Highta school editor in the states has More news judgment Titan to let a Chaplin rehash push an anti Trust suit right out of the but Pue Rilely stars and stripes is on record somewhat Pue Rilely Well both and for an education for peace for be creation of an informed Wen stocked with informed i tic so Many things being put off until the i no reason to add to the lengthy list the beginning of the difficult task of and stripes is in an enviable Posi that of being Able to do today what so Many of us Are forced to put off As a simple example of what might replace the columns about the cigarette theft let me Point to the statement of a new York times there is about the germans in occupied towns the astound ing and unmistakable air of people who Are now neither Servile nor full of Braggadocio something that All gis who we rent there should but that didst fit into the pro Touchy subject proof that such Touchy subjects politically can be handled sanely and Well on a factual basis is the weekly dissertation on Domestic news in is there any reason Why army news service do daily what yank does weekly this Tetter is written with the extreme suspicion that there Are not Only a Large number of soldiers who feel As i but that there Are Many who daily turn out the Sheet under trying conditions who would in most of the Points at i Hope that this and similar let ters will be of some assistance in routing the familiar the front before it can make an american red Star out of stars and which achieved its popularity in world War i with a common compound of Independence and it seems in summary a hell of a note when a brass cast outfit like the army Navy journal can and will say things that neither stars and stripes nor the ans 4arcs mention Champion have stars and stripes readers anything to say supporting or opposing champions indict radio program news hourly on the hour 1204 249 m 7th army Mobile 1500 pc and Shine Parade engagement 0830music in the modern manner Parade Tunette request program 1301xcaliforaia melodies diary 1630fiesta store Waring ten tavern january 1945 front the front theres a current shortage of that Cream in their Coffee and Salt in their Stew but plenty of Salt in their soup for a service Battery of the 133rd a battalion in Eastern mess Laddie had been salting the soup and staring at tw9 red Cross girls As they passed the he stared too this has happened but not after single Anderly knocking out a machine gun without using his 1st it James Sinfo Otto Pounder from grand discovered that a whole mess of krauts were surrendering to when they finally finished March ing out of a hidden Tower had counted 34 of As he marched them Down a he was joined by another officer who looked at him then dont look but Yon Haven got any Maga Zine in your As far As Ivan is an order is an Fox was driving a Hunting for a battalion when the Looey got out to Hunt on and told Fox to while he was with the of the 410th of the the Looey was pinned Down for a full Day by heavy Artil Lery fire and when he finally came Back to the there was Fox still waiting for but while he was Fox had dug himself three killed one German fired 150 rounds keeping others ton would think that he was too old for that sort of but sgt Fred blubber 202 Pound radioman from spent several nights sleep Wanna Tims French trick nazis by losing treasure train by Arthur staff writer patriots and the army prevented a special Tram carrying millions of francs Worth of looted Art treasures time of the liberation of it was fifty one containing More than Tush sculptures and rare were ready to leave the Reich on but ing in an oversized baby and sleeping it just happened that Hall was the fifth Man i his 36th division Field artillery outfit to enter this and there were Only four Beds and this one the went 800 Yards out of his Way his buddies a favor mortar no body seemed to appreciate it Hus ton Little found these very interesting looking bottles of wine in a freshly abandoned German Roark himself Doest but he thought his platoon buddies might like so he started Back on the in he was caught in a mortar but he still held onto his finally he got Back to the platoon and handed them one Quick a Short taste and a bitter verdict fruit he want so 28 Drexler returned Home unexpectedly from France on a fur Tough to find a Scarlet fever quarantine sign posted on his Brexter opened toe door and walked right he might be Backil Abner Bers of the resistance movement and the National museums administration had it shunted from Sid no to siding around Paris until the liberating army entered the City 24 Days it now has been unloaded and personnel of the Pine arts and archives Branch of jr5 have cooperated with the French commission for recupera Ion of works of Art in returning the treasures to their Rose chief figure n the operation which tricked the Teazis of works of Art stolen throughout the length and breadth of told the she was an assistant in of the Feu de in when the germans arrived and turned the building into a Clearing House for confiscated works jewish of mostly she came 16 times to the Jeu de pause to take his pick of the which included works by Picasso and when american spearheads approached is men seeded up the work of loading a final treas ure train with the most valuable articles in the but rail Way workers and members of the tipped off by kept it running aimlessly around second it Seine Section monuments officer who supplied a report to authorities on the recovery of the said Many other works of stolen by the germans and left behind in their scramble from have been recovered by fellow on 80 Dollar date9 tarns out a cop san Francisco 28 ans escort which had advertised itself As a personal adventure in Friendship today was temporarily out of a Cus Tomer turned out to be a officer Tom Oconnor said he paid a 10 Dollar fee to 20 dollars More for a girl escort for the even he for an additional 50 dollars the escort agreed to violate certain provisions of the cites anti morality ordinance which has been passed by the Board of supervisors to get rid of floaters and seagulls and similar stage show Familia theatre 1930 hours new French variety with 12piece swing Beautiful chorus and a cast of Lively entertainment All no tickets no get there uov1e8 theatre 1900 and 2100 hours when strangers with Jean Jagger and Kim transient mess 61 Joes it me Canauan Porem free meals for gis presenting a Day or an ertl Kiwi Insl wuss and meal you by Al Carpp clubs arc enlisted Beni club Rue a Arebal Foch s and 1006 Houri off tews snack bar mine Houn enlisted music Wash message wac Hen Boose in enlisted mens club g d for a Little girls1 Bath real hot connection for Allied officers club 1 de psf Latte to All Allied officers 1100 to but the serv of luncheon and dinner has been bar open 1130 to a batb8 arc Bath bring Towel press and Chine information Center m rat de la English speaking Trench girl staff Tor puzzled sports to Xibi Arena 9 au4ra tights every Friday night at 1930 open daily for workouts and pare Del sports available wednes for reservation Call athletic special if is Totor Bui e
