Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1944, Cairo, Egypt With 35g Dart with and fourth with Lix middies won five tied and failed to Pace in 6nly 4wbv army won Only f state annexed the Pix and lied crowns a total Ponce for Tui Goat Oklahoma was with Missouri fourth with new baseball Loop opens up this sunday hardball conies Back into its own this St today in the Cairo area with tote formation of the new Sand storm six teams Are in the Loop which was organized by Joe Peroli athletic piety at schedule for the first games Fol flyers Payne Field yanks re Toels rebel Brown Boers Huckstep Payne fed rebel Halburner wins Lor gis with the backing of a Host of i Hunch George Widener three year old speedster who goes there copped the 69th running of the mile four lengths in front of by Jimmy and boy the Only two horses in the Field were Broadcloth and Broad Grin who finished fifth and last res Huckstep softball Loop Blitz kids 7 0 1030 unreliable 5 2 rebels 7 1 ice cubes 6 1 homesteaders 5 2 unreliable 5 signal 4 3 officers 4 4 Poh off be 3 4 423 Lubars 3 5 Blue jays 2 5 Bas beens 2 5 Post utilities 2 6 desert rats 0 4 Signa leers 0 0 the highlight of this weeks games was a to win hurled by Kuether of Post utilities against the he had nine their the germans have decided to fall th6 Mouritz fms Northeast of the a plan Way for a desperate stand to protect the flank of the Ca Silina which is the Best remain ing route Supply and escape for their forces still holding out to the the beachhead push into Clater a followed twin drives across tie App Jan Way and the parallel coastal railway both East and of the the beachhead forces seized West of Cisterna on the and with the Aid of tanks have also captured a considerable sector of the Stze Albano stretch of the spokesman disclosed today that the British and american for Ces on beachhead had advanced up to three Miles across the heavily mined and bitterly defended Terri tory in first Day and a half of the the germans counterattacked seven times but were repulsed with the Heli of the largest tank forces used since Landing at More than eleven Hundred prisoners have been boost ing the total during the current offensive to More than Teri general in a state ment said the Battle proceeds and it should not be Long fore the two fronts Are firmly established As the fifth army will then develop even greater strength than the Bridgehead Loree has played a most important role in the strategy of the italian the enemy was unable to ii More this threat or Deal with it wit ii the troops he had available in South Ern and was forced to Send reinforcements from elsewhere which he could ill these troops have been pinned Down by our forces for four in order to Virtu Date the he enemy saw fit to nut in a series of most determined All of which were frustrated and in which he suffered heavy casual the by the position of the has been forced to fight on an extended it was at the Bridgehead the enemy was continually enga ged while the main front was re inactive at the time when m i i i to Tocas first i Niv Ersary ail baseball broadcasts i baseball fans in the mid dle East Are now tuning right into Yankee stadium and ebbets Field for running broadcasts of major league a can is the station beaming these new Broad casts and can be tuned in on the games Start at in is Cairo air War 1 gon tuned from Page got at least from american heavies continued their assault on aircraft Oil storage and Marshall ing Yards feeding Kesserling 1 divisions South of factories near Vienna got a Foo Ingver from 750 meanwhile the tactical Ai Force in Italy was flying thousands of sorties daily in sup port of the allies new land Type of bomber and fighter out Over the smashing and ammunition and Oil attacking rail lines and putting gun of action and generally 4 left Jab in the huns face the Allied land forces pre to land the or regrouping was in by the of the Allied Bridgehead the enemy could not know where our next offensive blow would he was therefore forced to bold reserves away from the Battle urea read to meet the two Ever present our troops on the Bridgehead had not been surrounded or Cut off As they had the uninterrupted use of their sea we have been Able to move men and material at while the my has been pinned to the ground unable to relax for a moment lest our threat to his line of communications should be invasion continued from Page 1 what the germans will see if in a frenzy of hatred they abandon All and use Poison Are the deadly resources of Ameri can chemical the germans have already met these units in action with some of their Milder forms of such As White pos it they not yet encountered the lewisite Mustard Gus shells and hand Gre As Well As aircraft they will not these unless they but if they it is All Here and in quantities the germans could not conceivably every instrument of every Gadget that a nation of Mechanic can is Here in overwhelm mime ready to move in thousands of planes directly into the european Battle America ready to fight to the finish in Croue simultaneously to deliver paralysing blows against dont let that shiny and Vety empty bar fool wreckage was cleared away for the Board of directors smiling happily from left to right Are Russ bartender 1st Maurice Kenneth John last but not Paul by Larry Howard French West Africa when the Gas at Eknes Field on the West coast of Africa get a longing for a bit of night life its a sure bet they can take the Edge off their yearning with a visit to the local no reportedly the first american noncom club Ever built in the Eknes Field organization celebrate 1 its firs anniversary with an open the club Pfow boasts a paying membership of Over 1597 on Occa can even Plank a bottle of Ival american Whike 4it Elbow covered and in this neck of the Woods that s some thing the club was started a year ago by about 15 permanent party men Oil the Field who talked the authorities into handing Over one of the transient seep big quarters so that a bar could be built right on the for the f St be v the charter members had Little to do but play cards among them they kept one Eye on to Lookout Lor new and had to drink the local variety of Rita not Beer served in a but the idea on and grew with 1 use until their numbers had increased to such a Point that now serve the same Peanut Beer free to All and even put it in a no riot Calls yet its the proud boast of Kenneth Maxwell of club that the club has never had any trouble with the Only maps says Aie members of the club off duty and having More fun than anyone the club has played Host every show and Hollywood celebrity entertaining tie so d ers on the at one time or an other the members have been entertained by such big names As Phil Culkin far right and his swinging strings Are the ankle agitators for the noncom at their open House celebrating the first birthday of the no club on the West coast of new zealand gift to the Harry is on the Tommy vocalist and throws a pleased Grin in his direction while bi4 Thompson waxes mournfully on his Way in Back on the Bass Joe stretch photos by Fredric Louise and Humphrey twice a week the local ail Soldier Phil culkins swinging pass out the Sweet stuff Complete with Tommy Thomp son of fort Texas does the singing for the the Stock in Trade which lines the shelves behind the usually Well crowded bar includes Eaude rum and and tall dark bottles of Peanut Beer which is still the Basic allotment for those unfortunates who play too Many crap games too Early in the besides t the club the other officers of the organization Are John link of fort vice pies Maurice Jarvais of and Paul Gundacker of new York bar tender extraordinary and local Raymond Adam Zewski of presi Dent until a few months continues to help the others to Man age the club and is one of the stronger members of the Organiza Tion he helped to create a year Wallace on Way to China Washington Vic president Henry Wallace is Enro Ute to China where he will remain until some time in the who announced wallaces added that Wallace would serve As his personal messenger and gather information for a firsthand report on a War theater of utmost importance to our future peace and the president added wistfully that Wallace will be visiting a dozen places i have Long wanted to ten die in Blimp crash naval Blimp crashed into a hangar at Lakehurst naval air station killing six officers and four enlisted one of the victims was Mccain 28vearold Nephew of vice John Deputy chief of naval air humorist George Ade Dies George Well loved american humorist and died Here at the age of armoured bibles nixed Washington the Arthur von Senden of which claims that its steel covered bibles and prayer books will deflect bullets and save last week received a complaint from the Federal Trade the com Mission charges that the armoured bibles not Only will not Stop bullets but Are actually hazardous since the steel plate would cause the Bullet passing through it to thus causing a More 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