London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars and stripes printed at the times publishing Lor armed under auspices of inform Guiod and education special and information contents pasted by Ike armr and Navy subscription 26 shillings per Vear plus Eto entered As second class matter at the Post new under the act of All material appearing in this publication has been written and edited by uniformed members of the army acid Navy except where stand that a Riri Han a other outside Soarf in by lev editorial printing House ec4 eci siness and circulation upper Brook we Tousa District offices Bedford 2184 Swindon 3424 Sulim col Seld oils february 1945 g 8 pkg got Hurt note bag is receiving Many unsigned we require your signature As evidence of Good Faith your will not be revealed if you inform us you want your name balance of Power 1945 to the bag Edward american legion glibly denies the integrity of the Constitution of the Ameri can legion when he says nothing in the charter or bylaws prevents us from working to defeat a presidential i do not particularly care if he St wishes to bypass his organizations but i am concerned with his desire to enlist world War ii veterans in making the legion a political pressure deny that it is democratic procedure build a balance of Power to control t3e politics of our 1 things most of us feel that we Are and that when we return to our a comes As veterans of this War we shall return As citizens i deny it is the Way oif the America in which i believe to develop a caste system of Veteran those who have not been the on scheiberling in the stars and stripes was headlined legion head sees a vet next in the White you May headline my letter Vilt Tobe sees a citizen next in the White William air financial report 1945 to the bag my wife recently at my the Enil used financial John financial report to head of firm by our s1oe last statement she has things in a helluva mess from Uncle Sam not As much Asim by crack matrimonial account no Cash unless countersigned by 5 of purse one faded Nylon Hose for red Cross Sample of email from an army Captain with Pic tune of moustached riddled ration Cheater stub from last gloves with pointing Finger Hole powder toilet tissue in lieu of and at last the two Mocaski mouthed Bobby Telephone Bill one crumpled Blank and three the bar Side including hidden during the month of june and year to Oaie far too but not my ctr As the Damn Bank 1 grand i signed Mildred Crabtree with full Power of atty for Speer and what is a Power of atty for Ive signed it to All kinds of papers and nothing has paid off gods hurry Home free Enterprise i 1945 to tse bag i a foe with Sobel that we must not go Back to the conditions that pro Duce i Adolph and All the Little Beca Jise Homes the place we most want to we forget that for a lot of people America was a land of hard toil can be not plan a peacetime Economy just As have planned a War Economy we Josea a Missouri Valley project like the we need the Lawrence waterway More modern j High Iveys arid and it Doest meant sacrificing any More democracy by to Kiing these things out of the realm of profit for a few individuals than we sacrificed is it undemocratic to put things under regional or govern ment control for the Benefit of All we Ordinary through our and have some con pro Over these things and thus Over the conditions we live As place As America plan make it even better air Bijie clemency for butt thieves 1945 to the bag the article ask clemency for Gas in the 27 the stars stripes touched me Why ask clemency for a group of no Good hoodlums who consider self Benefit at the expense of human life Nicole Speaks of the shame and anxiety to mothers and the item cigarettes is but a trifle gasoline and other items have been stolen and this foul practice unquestionably prolongs the think of anxiety caused to the mothers and Fiancee of men who died when the War could have been Over that Day or that month clemency no double their sentences or consider the act treason and execute each one of let this can up be a future example for those about to weaken the fist of when a civilian commented that he guessed the army did things pretty a Corporal Why at night we no sooner turn in and turn Over than we turn out from pfc Rubin Bloom comes this advice to people sensitive to rocket bombs if a rocket bomb hits you have nothing to worry it Doest hit what Are you worrying about report from Bill Henes after trying for two solid Days to time and adjust an engine without succeeding a disgusted motor Pool Mechanic took a piece of Chalk and scribbled on the Hood miss ing in and then theres the ask colonel who wears both eagles on one tis the mating he see a nurse named who hails from the Smoky has just giver us the straight dope on she see the dense Clouds of fog and smoke Are generated at the request of the natives to keep outsiders from finding out wonderful place the City really is so they wont move in and crowd the place Harry Lowenstein informs us that hotels in the states Are issuing cards to newlyweds to hang on their doors which read do not Germany and Japan fold Hitler and staff commit suicide and the japanese Navy Reuben Wicklund of photo group tells this weve heard a lot of stories about the arrogance of Ger Man but when we captured a German teletype hitched it on a line with one of ours and ran off the usual test now is the time for All Good All the nazi machine would print was Terry Nickolson of the Eto got a letter from his brother in the Pacific telling about a jeep which is used jointly by the medics and the Embla zoned across the front is the Apt body and i Daffy nation of expensive perfume dollars our own sports we pre dict the favorite football formation of any yank in the Eto is the old statue or Liberty the soldiers on 22 the stars and stripes reprinted a poem from the new Yurt tar tilled soldiers who from a Hospital Canic this i would like to write a poem about the soldiers in this War who just they fight in places the enemy will knowing there fighting they fight in bases bloody and in the damnedest these soldiers turn purple with they fight in the Only places in the world where youre up to your Knees in mud and get tears in your i would like to write a poem about the soldiers in this War who just they might get a for furloughs Are mostly for Active duty men still they just fight for one or two or three and after All that they apply for there not what the hell have you done to get leave because their scars and Campaign stars speak for and these after one or two or three get funny for human nature Doest seem to and forgets so dear Tom was Over again last Hes so much fun and tells the funniest j but those Are not the kind of letters that worry the soldiers who just its dear we miss you take care of yourself for god bless for the soldiers who just fight Are not much concerned about the letter they May but the one their folks v and these soldiers who just fight get More than one area but when they go Home they cant talk about the invasions they were or about the shells or about the Jerries or the f because want to for All Treyve done is i would like to write a poem about the soldiers in this War who just and in doing it its a heartless but that about the Only honest kind you can write about soldiers who just what id really he to do is just repeat one word Over and like death and make you read that three Hundred and sixty five for just one you might know what i Ralph de Gas May not know know what they like 2 cheesecake pinup girls for servicemen overseas provide indecent pictures before their dying William assistant executive Secretary of the National Council of Catholic said advertisements which Appeal to readers lower Smith include lewd descriptions of women i am thinking particularly of advertisements for the whole aim of it would is to Lead the wearer into circumstances where she can be More easily congressman wants discharged veterans to get better Emblem recognizable Emblem for discharged symbolic of Devotion and was recommended today by Louis Rabaut Rabaut attributed Public indifference toward veterans discharge insignia to the insignificant design and Small Only former servicemen out of hundreds of thousands entitled to Wear them have applied for the Rabaut he cited a recent Case in Detroit where a Guadalcanal Veteran was publicly ridiculed because he appeared physically fit and factory workers thought he should be in the when he showed them his one of them How did he get that regular attendance at a race track1 a country publisher first in the contest general depot Robert 37yearold ordnance battalion Headquarters sergeant major and former publisher of a weekly paper in received a Wai Bond As first prizewinner in this depots tire conservation essay Boswell Smith copped second place for a War while Ted of won a Bond As third mein major these Fiel glasses certainly bring the american dogs up close the minx for Jinx s s fur editorial ruffles find pinups warmer than words the stars and stripes Bureau reports that some newspapers in America gave prominent display to this Story from a civilian correspondent at the the editorial appeared Here by Frank Coniff International news service correspondent with forces in army the stars and fired an editorial blast against the War Effort in where it noted bitterly that women Are still draped in expensive furs while yank soldiers freeze at the the newspaper complained the Falls far Short of the total Type of total War being waged by if the american Effort were As the it the following would happen i in the Snow would be Wear ing Muskrat if not americas furs would be in not in Marshall in not in in the Vosges and not tie on the Roer and out where feet where hands Are Cheeks and ears turn White with pinup dowager and cafe society in general were All splattered by editorial shrapnel As epitomize no Lush comforts at Home contrasted to bitter 47 26 in West 22 in Pacific 2 army and Navy communiques and front line dispatches have identified a total of 69 divisions fighting there May be but censorship restrictions have not yet been lifted on any of these 47 have been identified on the Western front the remaining 22 in the four of the Pacific Divi Sions Are Marine in three 14 eight French and one polish division have been identified on the Western making a total of 73 it is estimated that Between 70 and 80 German divisions Are opposing the Allied troops in the privations being suffered by thousands of american fighting the apparently a senior officer living in declared everything for the front Doest have the same meaning in the As in the the authors anger evidently was swept Over the last dam of restraint by the pin up photograph of Jinx despite the intensity of the there were Good indications that its mess age did not meet with the approval of All Gas at the there is still much of the traditional feeling that nothing is too Good for the girls Back some objections were heard Aga Irist the editorials failure to mention the thousands of american transports and ammunition sent to nobody objected to the curve revealing picture of Jinx which accompanied the and one Downto Earth i re marked they should have thrown the words in the wastebasket and just printed a bigger picture of newmans Yankee doodles news entering the army the i has shown a marked increase in physique As regarding general health and i was once a 97pound then i was drafted and became mess american forces network american forces the ref on the Road to Berlin on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 3 old radio sports dance the up the of musical Isoo world up the sports band of the from the night time hit news from the and 4 for of Charm with Phil Spitalney All girl by Clyde radio news from the after Navy Kayes sunday from the sports barn York philharmonic up the sports album of familiar Benny Parade with Mark Warnos orchestra and 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