Post by kanowarrior on Dec 4, 2012 22:57:35 GMT -5
PARIS BROTHELS ARE CLOSED TO ALLIED TROOPS
More than 180 Paris brothels closed their doors to soldiers last night as military police posted off-limits signs and GI vice squads began a systematic quarantine of red light districts in the French capital.
As freshly-lettered signs reading "Off Limits to Allied Military Personnel" went up on licensed and unlicensed bawdy houses, the proprietors were notified through the French police that they were not to admit Allied troops.
Announcing the cleanup campaign, designed both to check the spread of venereal disease and to keep soldiers out of the Paris underworld, Col. E.G. Buhrmaster, Seine Base Section provost marshal, said the most severe penalties would be inflicted on any men who tried to force their way into the brothels in violation of the ban, enforced by order of the theater commander.
Though the number of houses is too great to have MP's posted at each entrance, vice squads from the Army police force will make daily inspections of every establishment to check against violations of the order.
QUAKE IN MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 2. - An earthquake of mild intensity, probably centered south of the city, was felt throughout the S. Louis area yesterday. Dishes and small objects were rattled and residences shaken but no damage was reported.
NEW TANK DESTROYER IS IN PRODUCTION IN U.S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. - The U.S. Army's new tank destroyer, the EM36, is now in production at teh American Locomotive Co., Schenectady, N.Y., it was announced by Col. Frank J. Atwood, chief of the Rochester Ordnance District.
Battle-tested in Brittany, where it knocked-out both German Mark V and Mark VI tanks, the EM36 mounts a 90-mm gun and is known to be one of the fastest major caliber tank destroyers in the world.
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
Sgt. Carl G. Schubert, of Chicago, probably has the most unpopular job in France. He's the guy in charge of painting the off-limits signs which go up in every town after its liberation or capture.
A sign painter in civilian life, Schubert bosses a gang of GI and civilian letter artists who have turned out 15,000 signs since D-Day - most of them forbidding something. Yesterday Schubert, member of an engineer camouflage battalion, cooked up a notice reading BERLIN - OFF LIMITS TO ALL TROOPS... "just to see who it looks".
CONFIRM NAZIS PLAN FOR FUTURE
LONDON, Oct. 2 (AP). - Diplomatic sources today said report from the Reich's frontier substantiated Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's charges that Himmler was forming a secret organization to keep Nazism alive by establishing three different "crews".
One was described as picked Gestapo men, who assumed new identities in new localities and took the papers of men killed in Allied air raids to support their claims. The second reportedly was made up of picked youths from special schools for Nazi children at secret camps in all lodges of the underground organization.
The third is to be composed of boys and girls under 16 years who would be given special training for harassing occupation forces.
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Doughboys in battle pick up strange mascots. One such is a chicken belonging to Pvt. Ralph T. Campbell of Wheelersburg, Ohio, that isn't old enough to lay eggs, but already has been in four countries with Campbell and his Sherman Tank - France, Luxemburg, Belgium and Germany. Campbell picked up the chicken north of St. Lo. "Bette," as he calls her, has been through many tough battles. On the March through Paris "Bette" was seen perched on the barrel of the 75mm on Campbell's tank.
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Pfc I. G. Jupiter comes through with the latest version of being ETO-Happy. He sez teh symptoms are as follows: "We look at a cow and see a steak; a chicken crossing our path brings visions of 'Southern Fried'; and the other day we saw an empty bottle - and we're still taking aspirins!"
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Pvt. Ellis Sheetz asks, "Is it true that Hitler now puts himself to sleep by counting Yanks jumping over the Seigfried Line?"
***
ETO YULE PARCELS SWAMP N.Y. APO
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. - Thirty thousand sacks of mail containing half a million Christmas packages for soldiers in the ETO deluged the Army Post office here over the weekend.
Since Sept. 15 some 4,200,000 packages have arrived. Last year the same period brought 1,585,000 packages. Postal officials declared there was a shortage of workers in this huge APO, specially built in Queens to handle the bulk of overseas Christmas mail.
More than 180 Paris brothels closed their doors to soldiers last night as military police posted off-limits signs and GI vice squads began a systematic quarantine of red light districts in the French capital.
As freshly-lettered signs reading "Off Limits to Allied Military Personnel" went up on licensed and unlicensed bawdy houses, the proprietors were notified through the French police that they were not to admit Allied troops.
Announcing the cleanup campaign, designed both to check the spread of venereal disease and to keep soldiers out of the Paris underworld, Col. E.G. Buhrmaster, Seine Base Section provost marshal, said the most severe penalties would be inflicted on any men who tried to force their way into the brothels in violation of the ban, enforced by order of the theater commander.
Though the number of houses is too great to have MP's posted at each entrance, vice squads from the Army police force will make daily inspections of every establishment to check against violations of the order.
QUAKE IN MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 2. - An earthquake of mild intensity, probably centered south of the city, was felt throughout the S. Louis area yesterday. Dishes and small objects were rattled and residences shaken but no damage was reported.
NEW TANK DESTROYER IS IN PRODUCTION IN U.S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. - The U.S. Army's new tank destroyer, the EM36, is now in production at teh American Locomotive Co., Schenectady, N.Y., it was announced by Col. Frank J. Atwood, chief of the Rochester Ordnance District.
Battle-tested in Brittany, where it knocked-out both German Mark V and Mark VI tanks, the EM36 mounts a 90-mm gun and is known to be one of the fastest major caliber tank destroyers in the world.
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
Sgt. Carl G. Schubert, of Chicago, probably has the most unpopular job in France. He's the guy in charge of painting the off-limits signs which go up in every town after its liberation or capture.
A sign painter in civilian life, Schubert bosses a gang of GI and civilian letter artists who have turned out 15,000 signs since D-Day - most of them forbidding something. Yesterday Schubert, member of an engineer camouflage battalion, cooked up a notice reading BERLIN - OFF LIMITS TO ALL TROOPS... "just to see who it looks".
CONFIRM NAZIS PLAN FOR FUTURE
LONDON, Oct. 2 (AP). - Diplomatic sources today said report from the Reich's frontier substantiated Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's charges that Himmler was forming a secret organization to keep Nazism alive by establishing three different "crews".
One was described as picked Gestapo men, who assumed new identities in new localities and took the papers of men killed in Allied air raids to support their claims. The second reportedly was made up of picked youths from special schools for Nazi children at secret camps in all lodges of the underground organization.
The third is to be composed of boys and girls under 16 years who would be given special training for harassing occupation forces.
***
Doughboys in battle pick up strange mascots. One such is a chicken belonging to Pvt. Ralph T. Campbell of Wheelersburg, Ohio, that isn't old enough to lay eggs, but already has been in four countries with Campbell and his Sherman Tank - France, Luxemburg, Belgium and Germany. Campbell picked up the chicken north of St. Lo. "Bette," as he calls her, has been through many tough battles. On the March through Paris "Bette" was seen perched on the barrel of the 75mm on Campbell's tank.
***
Pfc I. G. Jupiter comes through with the latest version of being ETO-Happy. He sez teh symptoms are as follows: "We look at a cow and see a steak; a chicken crossing our path brings visions of 'Southern Fried'; and the other day we saw an empty bottle - and we're still taking aspirins!"
***
Pvt. Ellis Sheetz asks, "Is it true that Hitler now puts himself to sleep by counting Yanks jumping over the Seigfried Line?"
***
ETO YULE PARCELS SWAMP N.Y. APO
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. - Thirty thousand sacks of mail containing half a million Christmas packages for soldiers in the ETO deluged the Army Post office here over the weekend.
Since Sept. 15 some 4,200,000 packages have arrived. Last year the same period brought 1,585,000 packages. Postal officials declared there was a shortage of workers in this huge APO, specially built in Queens to handle the bulk of overseas Christmas mail.
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