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FRIDAY, DE | i Stout Field Newspaper Staff Scores Agaif

WAR'S EFFECT ON CHRISTHAS

Despite Outcropping of Cynicism.

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56 Pages Sef - Record on §& Anniversary §

When the first anniversary edition of Stout field's army newspaper, “The Fielder,” rolls off the presses today, it will crack “another record among the

nation’s army camp papers. Containing 56 pages of news, comics, cartoons, gossip, photographs and. features, the anniver--sary issue will be the largest ever published by an army paper. Thus, the year-old “Felder” breaks its own record, establishea on April 30, when it put out a 40page issue on the anniversary of the I. troop carrier command which has headquarters at- Stout fleld. Another record on its list is that of being the first army sheet to print syndicated features, whick were donated to “The Felder” by six national syndicates. » » ~

THIS REGIMENT right now has a lottery on. The grand prise is one bottle of Coca-Cola. It seems that a few weeks ago M. Bgt. Woodrow Daniel, of Jasksonvilie, Fila. got a bottle of coke in a_package home. He toyed with the bottle a ; YLER While aid then decided he: had 4 betier idea than yy ©. P) the obvious one of drinking it. He'd raffle it off and gS idl give the proceeds to some worthy cause. So he|—For millions of human beings, at two-bits apiece, this Christmas will be. another day thing got big. They decided [of misery. TRG . In many a once-.ranquil land the world around, suffering will be piled upon suffering, and death will be the only escape. Thousands of young Americans who but lately believed in Santa Claus will not know Christmas this year because they are dead. For thousands more this will be the last Christmas. The casualty lists to date show 20,650 dead, 41,050 wounded, 32,072 missing, and 28 733 prisoners of the enemy.

High Toll Predicted This week the nation's war lead-

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In observance of the first anniversary of “The Fielder,” Stout field's army newspaper, this staff turned out a record of 56 pages of news stories, features and photographs. Left to. right are Cpl. Edward B, Scott, Pfe. Victor L. Rensberger, Pfc. Charles Hornick, Cpl. George F. Tilford Jr, Capt. Edwin C, Stein, Sgt. William F. Kiley Jr, Pvt. James A. Osberg and Cpl. John Brackett,

and prattically everybody throws in more than the ecessary quarter. The raffle comes off Jan. 1, and the boys hope the Coca-Cola company will match whatever amount they raise over here. I have no doubt they will You'll probably be hearing about it in January. In the meantime I tried to find out what they had done with the one bottle of coke. All I could gather was that it's a military secret. They aren't taking any chances.

Work at the army air base practically stops when “the Flelder” is distributed around 4 p. m. every other Thursday. The emphasis is on the activities of enlisted men, with plenty of wise cracks, quips, gossip news and boners to brighten the pages.

His present staff consists of seven men who were active in newspaper or :adio work before they joined the army. Among them are three Indianapolis men:

Sgt. William F. Kiley Jr, fore merly business manager of WFBM, and Pfc. Victor L. Rensberger

dlanapolis news, cartoons and comic strips, glamour poses of movie stars or cilivlian employees at the field. Hand in hand with the paper's editorial progress has moved its circulation, Although definite figures can not be made public, its mailing list includes addresses

» ° . : ers somberly predicted nearly 400,- : on every battlefront — former and Cpl. George F. Tilford Jr. inside indian 1 owell Nussbaum 20-Page Starter “ox ; y 000 new casualties in the next 90| « ge S Stout flelders who still regard both formerly on the staf! of : : PROBABLY THE most popular | " p. days. TO HOLD so many “firsts” J. , “The Fielder” as tops among The News, 3 among army newspapers is not to feature 1s “The Fielder Visits . ." gry papers. Other men sta- The rest of the staff and their

OC. M. (MOKE): DAVIS, advertising director for over..... An Indianapolis girl received a letter from| Against this background of con- a picture story which describes gioned at the fleld send copy pre-war jobs are Cpl. Edward B,

be regarded lightly today when

last December, they called for an eight-page issue twice a month. The first issue was 20 pages, and as yet “The Fielder” has not contained less than 16,

of “The Fielder” is a veteran newspaperman of 16 years’ experience, Capt. Edwin C. Stein, base public relations officer.

EAs on toward the store eh tne Toda Warrani On a ge of a A 0% ew nere tinuing horror — compounded by| 5rmy publications are almost as such activities as an evening spent of each issue home. 8coft, advertising man with the when he became a his shoestrin untied. He written: * I small 1d.” The sor economic, labor and political dis-| numerous as daily news sheets in at the field, taking an examina- oan Dallas Times-Herald and the St. e aware g was i 4% ten: “Hiya pal; it's a word. rhe Ses cord at home—what meaning has| the country. tion for aviation cadet, going 3 Louis Post-Dispatch; Pfc, Charles to over Mths lose 1, use : Ve 3 Christiansen, a schoc hfe of the girl. Christmas, 1943, for the people of When the blueprints for a Stout formal at the officers’ club, stay- Experienced Staff R. Hornick, with the Associated sm of the possible consequences, and . , , Seen at Illinois and Washington: A young man the United States? fleld newspaper were drawn up ing up all night with the officer THE MAN BEHIND the pages Press bureau in Louisville, Ky.; nd decided to limp along until he got in an obviously brand new hat, muffler and overcoat. mye question was put to scores of the day, or spending a day with Pre Jaen A Oshery, aviation

to his office. He got through the revolving door and was heading for the elevators when someone stepped on his heel, and his foot

kicked the shoe down the aisle, out of sight. Moke had a difficult time for several minutes. He didn’t dare walk on the shoeless foot for fear it would be tramped on by the crowd. But finally his shoe

When he turned around, there was a large pricetag on the tail of the coat. . , . Mrs. John 8. Kittle, president of the Animal Welfare league, heard a dog howling near her home in the Crooked Creek district yesterday. Investigating, she found a small white spitz “with its paw in a steel trap tied to her fence. Several boys who were skating helped her free the injured ‘animal, and it limped away. She destroyed the trap. . + + Gene Dorn, the druggist at 13th and. Penn, started a minor riot yesterday when he put on the shelf a case of pre-prohibition whisky—Sunnybrook medicinal whisky—aged 16 years in wood and bottled

of persons, distinguished and undistinguished, at dinner parties, on street corners, in office buildings. Those questioned included many whose sons, brothers or sweethearts are numbered among the 3,500,000 young Americans now on duty at sea or overseas—a total expected to reach nearly 6,250,000 by next Christmas.

" Divergent Opinions

director of the Chicago HeraldAmerican, and Cpl. John Brackett, city editor of the Nevada State Journal in Reno.

the WAQCs. Other pages are filled with a news summary of the war progress, short editorials, sports, In-

Johnny Doughboy Promises Wide-Eyed Alice, Blitz Baby, That Christmas in London Next Year Will Be Gorgeous

kicked back in his direction and he grabbed it on Seems as if everything happens to Moke.... Bernhardt Callendgr who has been in the Meditheater of war surprised his father, C. L.

for the holidays, He's stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga.

It's a Small World

A BLIND GIRL with a seeing eye dog got aboard A Central bus on the circle yesterday afternoon. The bus was pretty crowded and people, not noticing the , dog, crowded too close and made the anima] nervous.

since 1917. It went like hotcakes at $7.50 a pint.

Santa’s Promise

JOHN MUSSELMAN of the Banner-Whitehill Co. is what might be termed a rabid Republican. Several days ago he stopped in front of Marott’s and stood looking at a window display of shoes. Frank North, advertising manager of Marott's, saw him and whispered in Santa's ear. Santa stepped out and told Mr. Musselman that for Christmas he was promising

rott’s and waiting until Santa comes out, then saying: “Tell them what you told me.” He gets a hig kick . From an impeachable source (that's right) we get the info that some of the wise guys purposely let their store accounts get frozen a few weeks ago to put the brakes on the family's Christ-

out of it . .

Answers to the question revealed a variety of moods and natures. Some were cynical, disappointed, bitter. Many reflected the profound loneliness of solitary individuals separated from their families and friends. Many were filled with hope, faith and conviction that the world will one day be well. ~ The head of an important branch

that's what this Christmas means|’

to me. It's another notch to cut

in the stick that marks the days|

until final victory.” A university man government on leave - of . absence

serving the

By EDWARD P. MORGAN

LONDON, Dec, 24.—Once upon a time a Yank named Johnny landed in London at Christmas time. He was strolling on Piccadilly Circus when a girl slipped her hand in his. She was a blond; her hame __ was Alice, and she

i smile like an elf. Let's see the £t Christmas eve sights, she sald. Alice reminded Johnny of a cer-

legs and his long khaki ones wove their way ‘through the great crowds. They did not Jook like holiday crowds to Johnny; the faces were tired and seemed to dissolve in the cold, gray monotony of the city. But there were splashes of color here and there. Curb-hawkers in Knightsbridge and Oxford st, were selling pussywillows, holly wreaths,

Allce's coat. “Buy pussywillow, too, Johnny,” she begged, “because it's a magic wand and will make you a fairy prince ‘and we'll help people make Christmas wishes.”

in bowler hat and ‘black greatcoat, but Johnny thought he looked tired like the rest, opt: “I'd lke to have. Alfred come popping in, I would,” the gentleman sald. “He's in the 8th army and hasn't been home in nearly four years, That'd be a lovely present; it would indeed.” They stopped a charwoman next.

As a matter of fact I could do with a plum pudding.” Tears ran down a little boy's freckled cheeks. “I want a train,” he sobbed, “but Santa Claus says there aren't any mechanical toys at

and plenty of people buying them if they can wedge themselves into the store,” he saldi=#1'd like to buy my own something“pretty but I can't afford 20 pounds for a handbag, can I?" HE Rationed Candles

Greenfield, the waiter at Chester's where Alice and Johnny splurged on tea cakes, confessed

same day. . . . Pic. Bob Schalk, the former Butler Republican victory. of an important war. agency said: was almost 5. mistletoe and harberry leaves as| “Get along with your foolishCollegian editor and former Times employee, is home lim > Bi a been taking ha 5 Sire Sher, Box, “We're a lot closer to the end of She had red red as wine. ness,” she sald, but “I could do with be tua to Hm his tree with four a. the war than we were last year— leggings and a| Johnny bought a holly sprig for|a spot of real rum for my puddings. |Fationed candles.

“The stores do not look so pretty, either, do they, sir,” he said. “Of course, it's the paper shortage, isn't it, sir? But how people are spending. They say the Bank of England put 36,000,000 pounds more into eire

The bus driver considerately called out: “Move back hoa FNIe To ak fot A Weigh en). Lue: pointed to “the obvious irony of : Jin 1ittie gull Johnny couldi't.quits magi All. I SOR want any old wooden Slane: ei urls wate and don’t crowd that dog.” Folks moved—right away. ceive a Christmas greeting with 2 cents postage due. celebrating ina world at war the || A & back home, ex-|prince in corporal’s uniform but he) wagon, A a) Yeopie spent fast Joan the When the bus got to 21st st., the blind girl rang the It was from a postal employee. ... Anna Grimes, 438 bitrhday of the Prince of Peace.” | Mr " cept that she had bought a single straight stalk. The magic wand was getting ar oo pion i id _ bell to get off, There had been a fire in the neigh- E. Michigan st, read the item about Ch ristmas gifts But a 20-year-old government girl . Morgan 0 father or : Now you're a prince,” cried Alice. heavy but Alice told Johnny to I b phd ut i ne ) $69 | borhood and there was fire hose all over the street. for garbage collectors and tells us she has given a nice | (NOUShE it would be “the most won- {mother. Remember the blitz? “We must ask this gentleman his keep on, . Ne y ckout, Bo the operator, Wilbur Gauthier, got off the bus Christmas gift to her garbage man the last four years derful Christmas I ever had.” Her| Johnny and Alice made an at- wish, The ne operator was cheerful | Butdenty Johny -undistatoed _ and helped the gir] to the curb. There the dog took “and do I have deluxe service!” . sallor brother will be home on [tractive couple as her tiny red«clad' He was g§ nice-looking gentleman enough. } Oh, plenty of good books Bure. od ove, Inoled ay ;

In Washington

Tehran and Cairo, in the midst of much gossip about his status. At Quebec it was decided that Gen. Marshal] should command the allied forces in Europe. Presi-

mais

instance, the Mediterranean theater was to be lett outside the jurisdiction.

U. S. Refused Restrictions

at Tehran that the British and Americans get down to business and name a commander jmmediately and fix their target date, Roosevelt and. Churchill went back to Cairo and fixed it up that Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, British commander in the Middle East, would take over the whole Mediterranean area, enabling Gen. Eisenhower to take command of the

cross-channe] operation, This is by far ‘the most sensible solution.

Marshall is too able and knows too much about this war to be limited to one assault task. His return by way of the Pacific was significant. He must correlate the campaign against Japan with the campaign in

Europe, which is now preparing for a climax.

It is good that a final decision has been made. But it would be better if all this were made clear ' officially and in a way that would remove Gen. Marshall as the subject of gossip all over the world and

By Rawwiond Clapper

Gen.

give him the prestige of a fixed and universally un-

derstood position. Speculate Over King’s Role

THE SAME goes for Adm. Ernest J. King. He,

is the subject of some speculation, From

mander in Europe, Adm. King fought against the

breaking up of the joint and combined chiefs of teams here.

staff

He Jost the first round. but in the end His viewpoint prevailed, and undoubtedly his strenuous argument on behalf of retaining Gen. Marshall in his position of power in the general conduct of the war

leave from North Africa. Truck Driver Hopeful

The truck driver father of a son born last week said: “I don't know whether it has anything to do with Christmas, but- I hope that by the time this kid grows up the world will have got some sense.” The opinion expressed by one man that “only imbeciles and children can be happy this Chfistmas,” was disrupted by a newspaper editorial writer who quoted Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to . . . weep, and a time to laugh . . .” A man waiting for a bus thought a while and said: “I'm still sentimental about Christmas. I think

of the Star of Bethlehem-—and of} :

those blue stars, and the gold ones, you see in windows. If the Christmas. spirit, and the golden rule, prevailed every day, everywhere, we'd never again have to hang out those blue stars, or the gold ones.” Said a soldier: “I wish it would be my last Christmas in the army. I don't think ‘t will be, though.”

Still a Kid "A sallor: “I'm going to see my

folks. It will be the first time in two years. You know what Christ.

{to° do except spying and sabotage.

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Times Special Writer

TANGIER, Dec. 24—This internationalized, hot-spot, poly - glot town-of-all-nations is the toughest, most treacherous, wide-open keg of dynamite left in the world today. In addition to its crime-ridden, sommnian CTOOked - sireeted Pcasban, this * Babel - speaking African sea port sat the Atlantic gateway to the Mediterranean is

There are two rival Italian staffs claiming to represpnt the king and Mussolini, and two rival French staffs loyal to De Gaulle and Vichy. Even local Spanish authority is split between civil and military, and over

.|brief, and was held in an ominously

Taylor Finds Tangier World Capital of Spies, Smuggling and White Slavery

striped pants and Vichy's local hopeful, the honorable Jacques. It began when Jacques kidnaped the Moorish wife of the baron. ‘The distraught husband offered 10,000 Spanish pesetas for her return, but the abductor stood pat. The baron then resorted to gulle by kidnaping the Siamese cat which was the most prized possession of his Moorish wife's mother, a lady of considerable influence in these parts. “The cat was held hostage until the baron’s mother in-law forced Jacques to return her daughter to her crafty spouse. All of which J. Rives Childs swears in truth, Since my conversation with the baron this evening was quite

dark hallway, I didn’t ask him about it. The Rue Khalattine, which fis about 10 feet wide, is the toughest street I ever saw. It curls about for a quarter mile through a dis~ trict which has segments of Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Arab, Italian, French and Turkish. Every window is open, from the “Hollywood Bar” at the intersection

here, and in any money from Shanghal dollars to Brasilian silver coins. There are enormous arbitrary percentages for blocked money which has been dumped in here for a song. Because of conflicting jurisdiction which defy and control, the international currency black market of Tangier is today (the largest of any In the world,

Hoarders Hard Hit

Pre-war German hoarders of British * banknotes, for example, were caught flatfooted when Britain prohibited the repatriation of any of its money to England The German hoarders, | therefore abandoning their hedgé as ' best they could, dumped their Bank-of-England currency here. ~The result is that you can see fourdollar British pound notes selling in Sianchins Square for $2.50. Local smugglers working between here and Algiers are making 300 per cent on their dealing in French francs—if their contacts work out. “But theryre always trying something new,” the American captain of a Greek coastwise tramp steamer told me on the docks

It would be England's fifth war

strange, was it, that England was Jolly tired of cloaking the lights and life and laughter of the world's loveliest holiday under the mourns ful nightgown of blackout, : Not .so. odd either that in the midst of hellish tumult people tonight turned with special yearning toward peace on earth so they could show girls like Alice, who were born into war and never saw a dazzling white Christmas, the little things that make life good. Things like the novelty of discovering that a street light is used for something besides an object to bump your head against in the dark. * Use For Sergeants ; Johnny remembered reading in the Stars and Stripes that a lot of WACs were adopting. a girl (1 whose Dad was lost in a royal alr force operation in Tunisia.

Moran from Madison, Wis, and another named George Lawton from the Bronx began pitching pennies into a fishbowl. Sergeants are good for something after all, Alice and Johnny left the cab

hristmas wouldn't it? Not so. .

all is a sultanized Jafalfian gov-

of the Calle Christianos to the dead

tonight, He then brought out and

would have lost control of allocations and dispositions. prepared the way for a reversal of the Quebec de- ernment for the local Moslem world./end where an Egyptian runs an all- : » Hd would have had no Voie in determining whether cision, Ti; : From the visa standpoint, thisinight money-lender's stall. From She TO or 3 a Shousend Mul, he ange ys a ay “The the priority on the Burma campaign, for instance, Had Gen. Marshall gone to Europe, Adm. King “Iplace is the heavily under wraps forthe open windows of the tight- poe ore putting a lot of these into |Christmas sights have been Wone should be lowered or where Italian, Balkan and East- might have had to give more of his time to the global traveling journalists, and as the|packed buildings, lights blaze ‘and he said. “They were |derful. They're going to be prettier : ern Mediterranean priorities should be placed. In the aspects of the war and might have had to relinquish [ice ribbons and combat stars on his|first American newspaperman to/music blares. From saloons, dance| stored in Naples before the Ameri- next year They're going to be gor. io distribution’ of landing craft and other critical matters some of his duties as chief of naval operations. But : “I still stand by|enter Spanish Morocco in nearly a halls and dope dives, every language cong attacked, and they come very|geous” ; ! — Gen. Marshall would have to take what was allowed. that does not appear to be in the cards now that He referred to this|year, I still do not know why there from Hindu to Portuguees pours out| cheap, They were made in Osaka, Alice his hand and 5 ‘He could not reach into the Mediterranean or. other the shift of Gen. Marshall has been abandoned, 3 : have not been more. For, no mat-|into the stick air until you wonder | onan » stroked the wand ~theaters. Adm. King is 8 hard driver and he wastes little| “And the angel said unto them,|ter what combination of arrange- what awful conspiracy in the af- ’ with Be aie pumywillow : In effect it would have been a sharp restriction time in being diplomatic, 50 he is not without ene- ‘not: for, behold, I bring you!ments is necessary t~ get here, the fairs of men could have brought all her » of hls control over the war as a whole, in exchange mies. But the team of Marshall and King is 50 strong tidings of great Joy. . . |fact remains that all other kinds of |this together. NAVY PLANS YULE Tuas} be 0 Bice, Johnny she for a limited command, = and is doing such an outstanding military job that unto you is born this day people have done it. Base for Smugglers : The Americans refused to accept such an arrange- there could be no reason why President the City of David a Saviour,| For example, I had a little tete1 ment for Gen. Marshall. And on Stalin's insistence would wish to break it up. Christ the Lord. . . . [a-tete tonight with an Oxford-| This Is the capital of the white AT BUNKER HILL earth peace, good will to-|renegade who is too Hollywoodlike|and South America. It is contra- Times Sveclal men.” ood. He has as Moorish|band headquarters from which our] BUNKER HILL, Dec. 24.—Sallors ise va y Lieanor Roosevelt|™ — | | German unker staion : wife, lives high in the native/ Ten 5 4nd Jupusiese Suémits werk at the 3 Hil naval air . 1T Casbah, and saunters its streets in are all set to celebrate Christmas, will WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Yesterdsy, in New toa family in Russia as a sign of the gratitude we feel AX FUNDS HERE the full splendor of a twultiess Gut French North Mies. » Ab eaplon- line one day tn the year termed a

away with striped trousers—and

York City, T went to present one of the “household for having been spared the fate of these unfortunate] 10 BE DISTRIBUTED

a . with a dangling from one Kits” at’ the Russian war relief office. I found a I returned to Washington this ing and the| Toll installment tax collections ear a Ol Hl I rr wHe\the German consulotes here, while The Christmas dinner will conChristmas party for the children going on, with a has sched totaling $8441938 were listed for|giternates that Bond Street outfit{Cerman middlemen use Madame sist of roast turkey and all the real Santa Claus and snow maidens Who, I under- Co) 138 80ne according to ule so far. I started |b 8 FEED ; 4 stand, y Santa Claus in out with much mail accumulated during my few days fo’ the various taxing B ; Shand, acvnpany Sina away. Eleven o'clock found us over in the execttive |U0ItS 29041 Lippe po ae dae office shaking hands with the members of the bo eat Snow maiden, it 1 decided staff. This is alway a Christmas eve affair, but most : : extent of my ac- or ip, which we usually do Christmas eve bringing of one p up