Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Wednesday december 22, 1943the stars and stripes Voge 3harvest of death i in Over ref Cne a Germany  a Mann Orr ?000 tons a franc 0 w 100 it mme v i a run my 1 my sport to Hai s Crown Allied bombers have rained 12, tons of High explosives and incendiaries on Berlin to make the Nail capital the world s most bombed City. But other cities in the retch have not escaped the a Allied might a. Termites defeat Broncos 6-0, to to into title game Berjewski s 40-yd pass to Leach. Tops tight Duel defends title human pack trains Holace Arhat Hule by. Sgt Milton Lehman 4�mk and stripes staff writer with the 5th army dec 21�? 2n the High Hills of the italian Pivont the mule has gone out of a style As a pack bearing animal Many legs Are too Many these Days to climb most of the Steep Muddy paths that wind up to the frontline Hill positions and the army has called upon the Only dependable service available the human pack train. Night after night platoons and companies carry rations of food ammunition and water up to the Hills loading the rations on backboards when they re available and in their infantry packs when they re not. At the base of one of these Hills an infantry company is. Bivouacked during the Landing at Salerno Beach this company was in the first wave of infantry troops to. Sweep ashore. Last week they were on top of the Hill in the line themselves. This week they re at the Bottom of the Hill by Day resting for their nightly trek up to the frontline positions. Strong backs when you talk to these men you discover the problem of Supply in its simplest terms. Ships trains and trucks that haul supplies for higher units Are Here reduced to Strong legs and backs. As capt. Admiral m. Mcdonald company commander from san Antonio Texas puts it a a the boys Are up there fighting. They need food water ammunition. The Only Way to get it to them is to carry it up and that a what we re doing. This is the last Echelon of  carrying supplies into the Hills is one of the toughest of jobs. Pvt. Silas Barnett san Antonio Texas who has had his share of action in the Hill fighting says that the carrying detail is a lot rougher than the frontline itself. Sgt. Leonard Irby of Turkey Texas who has led his squad up the Hill on several trips agreed that its a a Man sized Job. Quot but its All right with us a says sgt. Irby. A we were up there on the line and we know what it Means to go without. Well keep them  Quot that trip last night was one we wont forget for a while a says capt. Mcdonald. A at. Least not until the next one. We got orders in the morning and we were ready to leave the company Aera by noon. The company fell in with empty packs and we hiked to the regimental Supply dump where we loaded  each Man carried 35 pounds a his pack a Case of k rations c rations plus a five gallon can of water mortar shells grenades or Small arms ammunition. One Man out of ten carried a Tommy gun or bar. The Captain also carried a bar. The others went unarmed. Shades of minotaur Between a a on and dark the company covered two Miles of the winding path around the base of the Mountain and by it Ark they were headed up the Slippery Mountain route that Rose 60 degrees in Many places. One Man in the com Pany blazed their Trail with White tape so that they could find their Way Back again. Quot going up that Trail a capt. Mcdonald says a we were shelled three times. All you can do when you re shelled with a pack of rations on your Back is stray where you Are and hug the ground. A couple of the men had chunks of shrapnel Bounce off their packs. A in the Middle of that Uphill run a he went on a it began to rain. It had already rained so much that the Trail was full of slime. Each Man had to keep the one in front of him in sight which Wasny to easy because All of us were slipping on rocks on the Trail and going knee deep into mid filled Shell holes. Somewhere going up the Hafl Dolzani slipped and  takes fall a did i fall a says pfc Raymond Dolzani of Brooklyn. A a did i take a tailspin in a going up this Cliff and suddenly there Isnit any Cliff and in a 20 feet below. Next to me is a couple of quiet ones. I ask them How they got there and they dont answer. Then i see they re dead Jerries and i get out of there and find the Trail. I done to know How i found it but i found it All  when the company reached the top of the Mountain Trail capt. Mcdonald saw a Pale Light not far away.  studied the Light for a minute and then decided to steer Clear of it. Later he. Discovered that the Light came from a German outpost. At three of clock in the morning when the ration train was coming in sight of the 1st battalion up Jerry tried to throw a counterattack. But the battalion was Walt in for it and had already ordered an artillery concentration. Quot the shells were flying thick All around us a says pvt. Barnett. A we flopped to the group. Boy i never knew id love mud As much As i did  the counterattack was driven off by the artillery and mortar fire from the battalion and the pack train picked itself up and moved into the battalion up. A battalion officer led them through the companies where they dropped off the rations. C rations welcomed Quot the men up there were tired a says capt. Mcdonald. A they a Beon fighting for five Days. But each time we came to a company and answered their Challenge somebody would say a hey Joe its a carrying party a the other would answer what a it carrying a the first would say  then they Dall holler night this Way a a a on the Way Back a capt. Mcdonald remembers \ a a its a Little easier although in be got to double time the men around a Bend where Jerry is already zeroed in. A few wild ones Fly in but none of them get us. After we Clear that spot we re feeling better. The men argue with me to Cartry my bar they re feeling so Good but i wont let them. In be never seen men like them. Whan we get to the Bottom of the Hill we see a couple of mules heading for the regimental  a a slinging sgt. Jim Berjewski passed the refrigerator termites to a 6-0 Victory Over the can Astel Broncos sunday afternoon on signal Field and into the City a championship game scheduled for Christmas Day at the stockade grounds where they will Battle the ordnance badgers for the right to play in the big new years Day Arab bowl classic. Both teams battled for three scoreless periods until Midway in the final Quarter when Berjewski spotted end Leach in the Clear and rifled him a 40-Yard Aerial for the winning touchdown. The try for extra Point failed. Though Defeated the Broncos played a bang up game with their passing Star a a shoeless Joe Mckenna running and passing the Ball in big league style. But whenever the barefooted California lad and his teammates neared the termites goal the refrigerator line turned on the heat and literally froze All attempted scoring plays launched their Way. In the closing stages of the fourth period the Broncos tried every trick they knew to work the Ball into pay dirt with Mckenna and Fitzgerald alternately flinging passes to Tinsley for gains but again the termite line held each time their goal line was threatened and took the Ball on Downs. The outstanding play of the termite line was the feature of the game while Celejewski and Sensen sparkled in the Backfield. Cpl. Joe a a shoeless Mckenna played his usual spectacular game for the Broncos with Bork and Solazzo playing a Good line game. Broncos termites Alexich be. Salz Bork la. Shoster Zybas a. List Solazzo re. Boyzia Olson re. Neuman Mckenna a a. Berjewski Palmer Rob. Wezler Tinsley lab. Sensen Lange feb. Angle termites. 0 0 0 0�?0 Broncos. 0 0 0 0�?0 touchdowns Leach termites. Substitutions termites Leach. Capt. J. Ostrander referee pvt. Paul shorten Umpire. Basketball Penn state 45 Susquehanna 25 Purdue 49, Depauw 32 St. Johns Brooklyn 57 Montclair teachers 34 Arkansas 42 Pittsburgh Kansas teachers 37 Connecticut 38 Worcester tech 36 Chicago University naval 57 Northwestern naval 35 Sampson naval 47 Hobart 44 Marshall 44 Fairmont teachers 30 capital University 75 Ashland 40. Iowa 82 Western Illinois teachers 34 Loras 58 Drake 36 Drew 67 Swarthmore 50 fort Knox 48 Louisville 37 Yale 66 new London military police 30 Gallaudet 43 John Hopkins 28 Texas tech engineers 39 Lubbock air Force 36 Boston naval receiving station 38 Harvard 37 St. Thomas minn., 30 Gustavus Adolphus 25 Omaha. 60 Dana 26 Bucknell 57 new Cumberland reception Center 37 Marcel Cerdan hdm Bastic bomber of the French Navy and Holder of the welterweight Cha in to tie sunday afternoon at san Philipe stadium in a scheduled ten round match with a sgt. Jim Toney coast artillery u. S. Army. Round up Hooks and jabs a boxing champs from five states met in a service tourney at the Las vegas nev., air base and the following boys emerged As champs middleweight Cpl. De Williams Chicago now stationed at Hill Field welterweight f. C. Mark Sumlie Philadelphia now at los vegas air base Light heavyweight John eur Kirg Minneapolis from Wendover Field Utah. Grid review professional and collegiate football teams lopped 770,000 Miles from their Railroad travel during the current season according to a recent Survey made by the a a railway age Magazine. Breckenridge Texas High school swamped Mineral Wells. Ti>3-0, in a night game but the headlines went to Harold White.  kicked 13 Points after touchdowns to set a new Texas Schoolboy record booting 11 in a Root before missing. Diamond dust Ray Blades former cards manager has resigned As skipper of the new Orleans pelicans of the Southern ask a Socia Tion to become the Pilot of the St. Paul club in the american association. Blades was the pelicans seventh manager in the past seven years. The St. Louis cardinals May lose another Star the the armed forces As Ernie White Star Lethander of the National league champions will be called up for his final physical exam next month. Judge Landis has refused to approve a Deal whereby the giants gave Dolph Camilli his release to sign As manager of the Oakland club in the Pacific coast league for an option on Oakland a shortstop. Bill Rigney now in the army. The giants however Are expected to renew the Deal by outright Purchase of Rigney. Landis had objected on the grounds that the option removed Rigney from the draft list should he be released from the army while it still did rot make it necessary for the giants keep  after delivery. Athletes in services it. Jack Clay who once danced for Hitler As a member of an american touring troop has been recommended for a medal for dashing to the wreckage of a flaming Arn a Pursuit plane and pulling the Pilot. It. Howard Berst to safety. No Racks Are tolerated about Clay being a dancer As he also lettered in football at Georgia tech Ancl was California Light heavyweight Wing Champion under the name of Jack Lusk. Chief specialist a a dynamite Gus Sonnenberg is recovering from a serious illness at Bainbridge naval station after 11 weeks of hospitalization. It still will be a Ping time before the old Dartmouth All everything gets Back to Active duty. Challenger spots Champ advantage in height reach Albriant Desmaris. Recognized service Linch weight Champion of Oran is receiving plenty of backing from his buddies to lift the North african lightweight Crown from the head of battling Hal when they appear in the semifinal event on the Cerdan Tortey Pard at san Phillipe stadium sunday afternoon. Desmaris. Who hails from Manchester n. H., is one of the cock est Little scrappers Ever to climb into an Oran ring. And what a More he has so far been Able to carry off this attitude by soundly thumping the areas leading punch exponents in his class Foremost of whom was Murray Cain who recently stayed ten rounds against battling Hai. In meeting Hai Desmaris is go eng up against one of North africans classiest ring workers As Hal packs a w picked punch besides being an exceptionally Clever fighter. The african Bon Bon also will have the advantage of several inches ii height and reach Over the american but not in digging heart and willingness to Wade in and mix it toe to toe. The stumpy Desmaris packs plenty of fire Power in his Short barrel like arms and in him the crowd will see a Good Little Man continually carrying the Light to a Good big Man with the perennial question of which is better being answered sunday afternoon. Proceeds of the card will be donated to the French red Cross. Other matches scheduled include Willie Sampson new Orleans la., army is. Johnny Mccoy Hale Corpus Christi Tex. Navy middleweight Champion of this areas sgt. Chink Broussard new Iberia la., army is. Mckinley Cuthbert army Wilson Mackey Bakersfield cal., Casablanca and Oran american red Cross middleweight Champion is. Peter Rabbit St. Louis ., is an All army affair. Jack Bird army Algiers middleweight Champion originally slated to meet Mackey has moved out of this area. Walt Robinson army meets Young Guercia Oran to top three Amateur bouts the others being Between Cpl. Leroy Foreman new Iberia la., and Ben All and Young Vival North african featherweight Champ against kid Nazef Oran. Tickets go on Sale today at Serra s tobacconist shop on blvd. Clemenceau opposite the Barclay Bank bldg., and in the stars and stripes office. Warga beats Byrd to cop Miami open Miami  Miami a Steve Warga War worker won the 5,000 Dollar Miami Ope i with a four round total of 280. First place prize was 1.000 dollars. Warga worked his eight hour shift each night but apparently Lack of sleep did no to affect he former professional who finished three strokes ahead of the favorite Sammy Byrd. The former Yankee unde tudy for babe Ruth fired his second straight 69 but his opening two rounds left him six strokes behind Warga. Too big of a Gap to close. Byrd won 700 dollars John Bulla and Ensign Wiliie Turnesa the former National Amateur Champ tied or third place with 284. Turnesa won the cup for the Low scoring Una eur rangers clip wings canucks Edge Boston new York the Cedar dwell ing new York rangers smacked the defending Champion Detroit red wings 6-2. At Madison Square Garden. It was the rangers second Victory in 17 starts Noth Over the wings. The Montreal canadians increased their Lead by beating Boston 3-1. Toronto took a firmer hold on second place by pasting Chica go 5-2. The loss dropped the Hawks into third place