London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1942, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday dec. 24the stars and stripes daily newspaper of the . Armed f orces in the european theater of operations. The stars and stripes is edited and published by and for the personnel of the . Armed forces in the european theater of operations. Printed by fhe limes publishing company l td., at printing House Square London Telephone Central 2000. Contents passed by the . Army and Navy censors subscription is 26 shillings per year. Staff . E. M. Llewellyn associate editor 1st it. H. A. Harchar associate editor 2nd it. J. C. Wilkinson editorial Board staff sgt. Russell Jones staff sgt. Robert Moora staff sgt. Ben f. Price sgt. Bud Hutton pvt. Mark Senigo and Yeoman Tom Bernard user. Vol. 3. No. 46, december 24, 1942this Christmas it s Christmas eve. And the first time in the lives of Many of us that we be been absent from the family Circle. But we Are not forgotten of that we can All rest assured. Wherever our duty finds us on this Christmas the prayers of America s millions follow. Together with their wishes for a Happy Christmas. The True hearts of mothers dads Sisters Brothers wives sweethearts and Good friends Are All beating in sacred unison hoping for our eventual Safe return to Home and noted ones. The individual Christmas greeting from our Home folks is but a Token and a Symbol of the nation s greeting to each and every one of us. All America is mighty proud of the service we Are rendering and the duties we Are performing. We Are first in the hearts of our countrymen this yuletide and the Pride of America in us is unbelievably tremendous. And at Home there is an empty chair that awaits our return. It is our chair in the Home Well miss this season but in that Home the knowledge of our service to America is the brightest Light on the Christmas tree. The Bells of Christmas will ring out Sweet and Clear this year at Home end the message they will carry to us is the age old message of a a Good cheer a from America s millions to each of us. Wherever we May be. A Carrier Pigeon whizzing on its Way toward a military Headquarters with an important communique was suddenly jostled by a Bird of the same Feather muttering a a get a move on buddy i m carrying the there s a to 5 named Kagle serving w Ith a medical unit Over Here and he a a pretty russian Navy the russian army has played such a decisive role in the present War and is now hitting the germans so hard and so often that we have almost forgotten the fact that Russia has a Navy and a very Good one at that. It is a powerful and a growing Force. The russian Fleet has sunk 81 enemy warships and 276 enemy transports and auxiliary vessels totalling Over a million tons in 15 months of War. Russia s submarine Fleet is the largest in the world and one reason Why Japan has left Siberia strictly alone. Prefabricated submarines have been built in russian factories far from Salt water and assembled on the coast. This russian innovation has proved eminently successful and strategically valuable. In new ship construction the soviets added 112 vessels to their fighting Force during 1940 and 168 vessels in 1941. Included in the group Are several Powei fully armed and very fast destroyers. Two 35-ooo-ton battleships and two aircraft carriers of american design capable of carrying 40 planes each Are soon to be placed in service. I he russian Fleet operates on four separate oceans the Black sea Northern Arctic Baltic and Japan sea. The Fleet facing Japan is completely self sufficient and Japan fears it. Important As the activities of the russian Navy have been so far in this War its value May increase still further As new operations open new Heaters of combat for the russian sailors. Clever magician. Since he s been around this part of the world he s gone to see the local magic men do their stuff. Kagle tells us that one night one of the experts going through his bag of tricks was hit on the shirt front by an egg which splattered As eggs except powdered ones do remember ?. Stepping to the platform he called to the offender in the Balcony a a mister Tell me where did you get it ? a a lot of men and officers who probably never thought they would Are suddenly finding themselves using the Trench language and wishing they knew More. Members of a certain detachment designated for Africa we Are told went Well prepared. They got hold of a Lingua phone and made Good use of the Handy device on the Way Down. Once arrived the men had the Good Fortune to Date some Mademoiselle from Tijiboy or some such town. A few dates with the Mademoiselle and the boys were Parley housing with the Best of them. In fact now when it s time for lessons at the Lingua phone the machine sits Back and listens lieutenant Jug Allard Russell Navy flyer from Seattle learning that his wife had baby boy celebrated by dropping a 1,000-Pound bomb on a japanese transport the bomb was labelled a a Junior it in Large Black letters. The Little yellow sons of Nippon Are no doubt glad the russells did t have twins. The Fellows of a bomber group somewhere in England Are telling this one on 9transplanting millions the germans Are continuing the huge task of ruthlessly transplanting millions of europeans in a desperate Effort to strengthen a declining production of War material and food. Their latest project plans Lor the Transfer of three million dutchmen Between the Ages of 20 and 55 to Eastern Europe. In announcing this program the germans pretend the dutch people by being Given the Chance of a a colonizing quot vast tracts of Eastern Europe will he compensated for the a a permanent a loss of the dutch East indies to Japan and that at the same time an outlet is thus created for the a a Over population a of Holland. The fact that Germany looks Forward to a a a permanent a loss of the dutch East indies is interesting. Apparently they have Given up All Hope that Japan in the Case of an Axis Victory would recognize any right of Germany As the country which occupied the Netherlands to a share in the administration and exploitation of the dutch far Eastern possessions. The German argument that Holland is Over populated so heavily that three million people must needs be transferred elsewhere is equally interesting and unquestionably nonsense. It is therefore quite Clear that what is really under Way is the removal from Holland of the greater part of the a fit population. This is All the More serious in View of the fact that another 450.000 dutch people have already been sent to Germany proper chiefly to work in Industry. The real reason for the Transfer it is believed is Germany a urgent need for More food. This food she Hopes to produce in the occupied territories of Russia Boland and the Baltic states by using the Best dutch labor available a a forced a if necessary. Pfc. Joe came led of Reading. A. Joe s in the Market for flashlights. The other night he followed a pair of Kilts three blocks thinking he was just a few Steps behind the ats girl he had been waiting on. We Don t know we originated this Little Maxim but we think it s one of the Cleverest a a Loose talk costs lives Loose lives cause King s artist May get y Anks Fain painting is displayed at Arf exhibit in London by Tom Bernard stars and stripes staff writer a sunday morning Chat Over a Glass of bitter in a Chelsea pub May bring to two american soldiers Fame More lasting than any string of medals across their chests. The Beers led to a conversation with a distinguished looking White haired Man who dropped in similarly to quench his thirst. The conversation developed into an invitation to visit an artists studio not far from the local. The visit led to a life size Oil painting of the Twe soldiers which is being displayed at the Royal Academy a annual Art exhibition in London. The yanks whose likenesses have been painted on the 32-by-42-Inch Canvas Are t/4 Oscar Kaplan 22, Linden n.j., and t/3 Theodore a. Korona 25, Latrobe a. The artist responsible for the Canvas is a. E. Cooper member of the Royal society of British artists noted portrait Painter for whom King George i has sat sketch first at the first sunday morning visit Cooper painted a Small Quick Oil sketch of the pair. It pleased him so much that he decided to do a larger More detailed painting. He asked the boys to return. They came Back four times and posed an hour each time. Each time they returned they found the painting had progressed. Cooper had continued the Job from memory during the week. After 12 to 14 hours of work the painting was finished. Cooper likes his new work. In fact he likes it so much that he has placed it in the annual United artists exhibition held every Winter by the Royal Academy at Burlington House Piccadilly. The Only thing that stumps Cooper and two american soldiers May achieve lasting Fame because they posed of a famous British artist a. E. Cooper in his Chelsea studio. The Resu of the four sittings is the Oil painting above showing t/4 Oscar Kaplan Linden n.j., left and t/3 Theodore a. Korona Latrobe a. It is in the Royal Academy a annual Winter Art exhibition. The soldiers is the title. They can to decide on one for the double portrait which portrays the two boys seated in front of a draped american decide on title every one who enters the studio is asked by the artist by what name it should be called. He thought of a a doughboy a or a a buddies a but discarded those names when he found that a a i Joe a would be a More suitable name for the 1942 Model american Soldier. But name or no name it s Hangin the Academy. Neither Kaplan nor Korona had been artists models before. A worked in a new Jersey Oil refi before the War. He now is a to stenographer in the signal Section London. Korona worked in a pen Vania steel Mill and is now a drafts for the engineers. They liked the experience How and any time Cooper needs a Yankee for another picture they re ready to s the models stand any time he asks. Buy Post War luxuries now . Pla purchases of cars pianos etc., would absorb excess is Washington dec. 23 up a an elaborate plan to allow people in the United states to begin buying Post War cars refrigerators pianos and the like now on an instalment in reverse plan is to be submitted for Public consideration soon by the office of Price administration. The plan embraces most major household items including such things As Central heating furnaces. What is earmarked for Purchase now will be delivered after the War but the buyer will pay now either in Cash or by instalments. The Basic idea is to Drain about $5,000,000 a year of excess purchasing Power from the Public pocket during the War years and at the same time leave the country in a position to give a big peacetime Send off when War orders cease. Henry j. Kaiser the a a Miracle ship recently proposed such a plan to the National association of scheme operates 1 he scheme would operate in this Way the consumer will Purchase the article required now either in Cash or by instalments but instead of receiving the goods will get a certificate. The Money will be deposited with the . Treasury which would redeem the certificates from the manufacturer. The certificate would also amount to. A priority ticket since those with the certificates would get first Choice of the goods produced immediately after the War. Buyers could change the goods they have nominated or the Brand and in addition get a Small Bonus on their Pur Chase representing interest on i amounts to a loan to the overcome official opinion on the plan is report to be divided in Washington but opposition by private business Interi is understood to have been overcome the authors. Business concerns began by oppose the plan on the ground that it Imp Post War allocation of merchandise the possibility of Post War Price cont now however they Are reconcile the idea of some form of Post War control being inevitable at least for time. The plan has been compared Germany s a a Volkswagen quot idea but one official said a a the difference is we mean it a my poets pc a amp Christmas in England am 1 surprised a today is Christmas full Nineteen centuries have gone since Golden Starlight merged with Silver Dawn to Light the coming of the Day of Days on which the blessed Prince of peace was born. Today is Christmas embattled Christ your temples lie a roofed by Vandal bombs Neath England s sky a Pagan Cross unseen against the night hears nazi pilots laugh As children die. Today is Christmas above All earthly grief and pain. Through War s deep sorrow sounds a Clear refrain a a your land your Freedom god my father gave and yours forever these shall still Alfred h. Von Krinitz major air corps a.. Christmas of All the love that loved ones know enriched thru years of warmth and glow there s none i know quite so divine As that which cheers at Christmas time. For me the world must Stop a space to give anew to god his Grace to recognize the love that s there Tho hidden Oft by Man s despair. May Christmas time epitomize that thru the years Well be More w and love As god would so advise. Captain w. J. B. of peace and Good will there Are words to Tell As we fight Day and night toward Sanc Noel but spirits Are soaring and hopeful swell for Hitler grows Littler the i Well. Herr Rommel has fled from his g Lairy and Goering is roaring and Tea admits of the Blitz vvlt�?~1, a they re getting their presents to Mas by air. Lets Toast our Alliance k on quot show let next year make Clear to the quaff that Winnie and Roosevel Stalingrad Joe f. No will Bash him and smash him him in Tow. So its death to oppression Sarvat 0 fear j Well fashion for Adolf a Sunmi Bier. E May god Speed our Creed May hear a a we fight for our Freedom a Dom is near a it. Kenneth
