European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Humble beginnings continued from Page 3 wondered aloud one Day in Early 1942. Enough said. Word was quickly passed to the War department then on to Britain Roosevelt wanted a newspaper for the troops the army was told. Give them one. As Fate would have it the order coincided exactly with the plans of maj. Ensley m. Llewellyn a former Tacoma wash., advertising executive who a been trying to get the command interested in starting just such a paper. Order in hand Llewellyn tracked Down Martin who sent for Price who  believe his Luck. A they put me on what was called the Deml the detached enlisted Many a list a Price said. A that meant we weren to assigned to any outfit and Best of All we were on per diem and could Wear civilian clothes if we wanted. You can imagine How i Felt a in the space of a couple of weeks id gone from Buck private to staff sergeant from being an infantryman in the mud of Northern Ireland to getting per diem and wearing civvies in downtown  Martin and Price set up in a tiny attic room in the London publishing company of Hazell Watson amp Viney across the Street from covent Garden and sent for . Hodenfield and Russ Jones a couple of 34th div soldiers they a worked with Back in the United states. Coming up with a name for the new paper had been easy. A the stars and stripes a after All had already seen service in the civil War when four Union soldiers from an Illinois regiment took Over a press in Bloomfield mo., and started putting out a Sheet they named for the american Flag. Unlike Price the civil War staff pulled their military duties by Day and wrote by night when other soldiers were asleep a and when we ought to have been doing the same thing a the editors complained at one Point. The stars and stripes reappeared in world War i staffed by such heavyweights As literary critic Alexander Woolcott sportswriter Grantland Rice and Roosevelt a future press Secretary Stephen Early. The paper which the stabs amp St bibs. A nil mum. Or Siw in  a Ihn Imp a mfg am m 4 4�?j m 9 a a Quot 12 .v5 the first american troops to reach great Britain March in London in Early 1942. File ceased publication in june 1919, also used a writer named Harold Ross who would go on to Start a Little publication called the new yorker. In London Price got a local artist to copy the crossed flags logo of the world War i stripes then pawed through the British company a font stocks until he found some Bodoni the preferred american headline typeface. Hodenfield and Jones were dispatched to report on the american Camps and depots in the area and Martin and Price started collecting wire service dispatches and photos. A it was As easy As going Down to some newspaper on Fleet Street and tearing reports off the wire machines a Price said. A the British papers gave us anything we  the first edition of the reborn stripes thumped through the firms k-5 bed presses on april 18, 3 Che Simba strip is sri a a message from our Chio to a Usu an civil War edition world War i edition 1942. The Lead Story was an interview with army chief of staff George Marshall who happened to be in London at the time. Marshall made note of the world War i version of the paper and the fact that no official control had Ever been exercised Over its contents. A it always was entirely for and by the Soldier a Marshall said. A this policy is to govern the conduct of the new  other stories in that first edition included a piece on War production a notice on the Spring time change and a Short on red Cross recreation centers. The table of contents was dedicated to Adolf Hitler himself a we know your stooges will get this paper into your hands at an Early Date a it read. A suggest you read at once one Man army on Bataan. Page 3. Baseball season opens. Page 6. Pearson and Allen. Page 2.�?� the first press run was about 5,000, and Martin and his staff delivered most of them personally hitchhiking from base to base because stripes did no to rate its own transportation. By summer circulation was surging toward 100,000 and the paper desperately needed More staff and bigger digs. Martin was gone by this Point having lost an argument with Llewellyn Over control of the paper. As Price remembers it Martin ardently believed that stripes was supposed to be for and by enlisted men while the major insisted there was to be a role for officers. Lieutenants did no twin arguments with majors even at the stars and stripes and so Martin was sent Back to the real army. He would later serve with some distinction As a platoon Leader in North Africa and Italy but his Days with the stars and stripes were Over. As the Call for help went out new staffers began arriving four or five a week sometimes from bases and depots All Over Britain. Corporal continued on Page 6 saturday april 18, 1992 50th anniversary special edition a Page 5