European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars Aind strikes you have been warned the germans have begun a wide spread use of the Wavelength of the bbl to sow their let this serve As a caution to you to be positive you Are listening to a Bona fide bbl broadcast before you accept As Allied the news you seven times in the past forty eight hours we have monitored these German masque Rading As bbl it is difficult to detect them from the real their announcers Are usually women with typical English their timing in switching is their phrasing of the news is at the ele Venth stroke of big the Jer Ries began their it ended exactly with sufficient time to switch Back to the bbl As the announcer in London Here is your duffle be positive you listened to an authentic bbl broadcast when you Luote the Robert was a bag fatigue there is a new evil byproduct of total War threatens to materially affect our fighting similar to Battle a this particular not yet recognized by the medical will be referred to As b bag the alarming spread of this malady among army officers in this theater makes this expose this disease usually attacks be Riou minded Young officers after two or More readings of b bag articles by enlisted men complain ing of the latest corrupt practices Unyong the commissioned symptoms vary from extreme Melan Choly to incoherent ravings accompanied by dilated pupils and apoplectic frothing at the Mouth the latter Type victim will storm about his organization with Chin thrust Forward and arms doing Nasty things like checking equipment or insisting upon proper military and then Dar tag his men to write the b bag in others have become completely they Are afraid to drink their liquor or notice pretty nurses or the officers this Type will often voice regret at Ever having become an Many of these victims of b bag fatigue have in the past Given their enlisted men passes while remained behind on have watched the boys pro Menade All the pretty Village meet the local and drink the local never once did these officers complain about wearing neckties attending interminable lectures and answering by what escape valve for their pent up f motions How this sudden of abuse believe the situation is critical and demands action Sim Ilar to the Campaign which reduced foot and brought in recent editorials in the stars and stripes have made us Ell More conscious of the need for Unity among the allies in our common fight against  officers be in this United Tunglin you had us worried until toe read your fans planned parenthood i read the article appearing in b b dated entitled planned marriages urged not even teaching soldiers the of birth tool it is a very sure and definite step toward starting returning old hers on their Way to degradation and a bigger and better War in a few has any of these noted gentle who Are so concerned about the headlong Rush of returning soldiers the holy state of Ever considered that for some of us at is a go Given right and that their interference is not fooling anyone this War was caused primarily by the fact that people in the last two decades have been turning from god and religion and losing their sense of Justice and the respect of the right of their fellow the pleasure and greed of life have become the god of now these gentlemen would have the returning Soldier begin life again with an even More flagrant disregard of the Laws of the planned parenthood federa Tion of is 1n Lor a bad time when the gis most of the married men i have talked with who have not started a plan on doing just that As soon As they the federation suggests that Young couples should have a Chance to find out whether they can make marriage succeed before they begin to have most gis i have talked to think that having children is one of the Best guarantees for a successful i wonder who is Joseph he your 12 Issue carries a no Tice that 2nd lieutenants now can make 1st regardless of which makes a wonder Why his pro motion cannot be based on qualification but must be choked the red tape of a to a similar Rule applies to stuck see letter a he Tousa 17 which announces change in a 30 june Macarthur fulfils pledge general Macarthur has fulfilled the pledge he made during the dark Days of the Pacific his troops have returned to the City that is known As the Pearl of the it is the biggest City that has been liberated thus far by american forces in their against once Macarthur and his men got took them just 26 Days to make their tray into three years ago the japanese took exactly the same number of Days to Advance their Landing Points and enter which had been declared an open their historic defense Manila fell to the japanese on and Macarthur forces fell Back on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor for their historic but the Small american forces faced hordes of and the Battle ended when Corregidor fell on May to regain control of Macarthur pitted elements of at least ten divisions against elusive japanese divisions under Tomoyuki the Divi Sions were the Lith airborne and first the sixth Ranger battalion and the 158th regimental combat team also went in on these forces opposed japanese divisions identified As the second plus the 58th inde pendent Marine and naval and Garrison and ser vice War Book i have a suggestion which i think would be an excellent if practical would it be possible to publish s s in a Book which gis could upon return to the Cpl John an excellent idea lets talk it Over As soon As Hitler Back and Forth at Long a pitifully few of the men overseas can get Back to the states for thirty Day theres not supposed to be any shipping space available to bring Over replacements for these men but theres no shortage to bring Back these same and that with millions in the states who have never or do they intend to toss a line Over the Stern of the ship and have these Eto veterans hang on for the trip Back when is this unfairness going to end and the overseas Soldier Given a Square Rit Krieg a helluva note telling fighting men who ask for necessary re placement youll need a release from or if you come to be we close at 5 come Back Balfanz and 6 Abar View of the prize was Malar and control of Manila one of the Fin est harbours in the far As a commercial naval it occupies a commanding position in navigation to Southern French indo Netherlands East indies and the City of Manila underwent extensive modernization after the United states acquired the americans assisted in Terni nation of the Eft felted sanitary to flt r boulevards and installed the cites famous open air the City grew into a propolis of 14 Square Miles with population of when the last census was taken in legislators Dindri visit editors of Roundup new 5 Chi newspaper of Amer ican soldiers in Burma and has needled congressmen who omitted those Heaters from their the United press said in the 4 staff writer Dyolf Retlaw wrote a lament under the its a rough War for us he had a special word for beauteous Clare Boothe who made the trip to the italian front despite the torture of Dyolf Retlaw is Floyd Walter spelled Walter is editor of the none have knocked at our hum ble Walter and the Roundup has now sadly surrendered the last flickering Hope that they mind this is not a complaint that the inc Heaters have been indeed we can picture the globetrotting legislators fretting because they  drop into our neck of the War for a spot of but after All their time is strictly from various authoritative including our old Friend the swedish we learn that the Halls of Congress Are bulging with lament new Bills of More varieties than claimed by so just regard it is Tough decreed1 by Larsh Chin lets have no display of wounded from new Clare Boothe Luce gently chided the i round she i the India area Long before you and i even wrote for your i waited a Long time for you boys to get out you can wait a Little while for me to come private Breger stabs and stripes printed at the new York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de Lor the armed forces under auspices of the information and Educa Tion special and information Teh Elysee contents passed by the and Navy entered As second class act the Post new under the act of vol Okay its a Deal for three Candy two packages bar of soap and package one of them is your prisoners was in list 3 candidates  5 of a new High com missioner of the philippine islands is under discussion by government officials As the american armies enter it was announced three men have been mentioned for the which pays s they Are manpower commissioner Paul who Erly held the Post Weldon former auditor general of the Philippines and Wayne of the philippine rehabilitation commission and now assistant pub Lisher of the Washington injured vets find Little need for rehabilitation courses 5 disabled veterans Are being absorbed into War jobs so rapidly that comparatively few Are applying to the veterans administration for specialized Public relations director Edward Lewis told the United press while veterans were taking rehabilitation courses at the end of entitled to training didst submit training application Lewis said that they apparently found War Plant salaries More attractive than the administrations pension while learning War jobs have been tremendous morale builders veterans not Only earn Good pay but have the satisfaction of boosting the War declared he be that when War out put tapers off Many veterans will seek vocational such applications May be filed up to two years from the Date of discharge or two years from the Date Congress declares the War whichever is after world War Dis births folks at Home Send these gis Swift news of sir storks arrival Caryl 2 Norina new York 27 Thomas Al i Jerome 30 Isidor 23 Clarence Iowa 30 James Sulli Jay 30 Eugene 31 Emmert 2 Louis new Bara 18 Herbert 8 Harold Janis in Henry Ford tabled veterans completed rehabilitation courses under administration Many mistakes were made then from which authorities Are trying to profit now in coun Selling those being now we have an extensive Selling system through 52 Field Eft least one in every stat we try to provide training which the Man will for which he has said Doolittle lauds air teamwork new 5 teamwork Between the eighth of and the Raf was credited As the Basic Factor in the effective bombing of Germany in a scribed overseas broadcast last night by it James eighth of he reported that tons of bombs had been dropped on the and of his aircraft in the three years since the two air forces Doolittle spoke in Observance of the third anniversary of the land ing of the first eighth of sonnet in in that he aircraft were sent five thousand failed to return and some of our men have been killed or Are 1 Admiral gets dam 5 rear Admiral Ralph Christie been awarded the distinguished i service medal for services As Mander of naval forces in we commander of the marines of the seventh commander of a task