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V Friday, August 3, 1945 THE f>AL!SADES Page Three GI Crafts Contest Is Arihounced for Talented Soldiers The opportunity of a lifetime for Gle who are skilled with their hands or handy with skills was presented this week with the an nouncement by the War Depart ment of a nation-wide Army Crafts Contest. Talented soldiers, adept at mak ing things, have the chance of plac ing their creative products; on pub lic view in a special exhibition to be held In New York City ’ s famed Grand Central Palace from Febru ary 15 to March 14, 1946. Designed to encourage the cre ative talent of American soldiers and to acknowledge manual crafts as one of the important recreation al activities in the Army, entries in the contest may include an un limited variety of work. Types of Art ■ The only restrictions are that en tries will not Include paintings, . drawings, sculpture, prints, render ings, and photography. Suggested categories for enlisted men to vyork in include the following: 1. Kitchen utensils, such as knives, can openers, tableware, spoons, forks, pots and pans, bread trays, etc. 2. Decorative articles, su'ih as carv ings, ceramics, trays, vases, letter open ers, clocks, lamps, bookends, end tables, coat .hangers, ink stands, desk sets, calendars, cigarette boxes, waste baskets, etc. 3. Garden and farm - articles, such as spades, hoes, rakes, shears, ' garden furniture, greenhouse accessories, bird houses, watering Cans, storage boxes, sun dials, flower holders, garden orna ments. t 4 . Textiles, such as rugs, curtains, draperies, mats , * table clo ths, couc h etc. . „ E7 Basketry, such as market baskets, mats, floor coverings, etc. 6. Articles for gifts and personal use. such as gloves, moccasins, handbags. 7. Ornamental articles, such as cigarette cases, rings, brooches, brace lets, earrings, wallets, key cases, walk-, ing sticks. • K. Musical Instruments. 9 Models of buildings, stage sets, etc; 10. Models of ships, planes, automo biles. tanks, planes, etc. IB Toys and games, such, as dolls. animals, pupi>ets, chess or checker sets, poker sets, jig saw puzzle*, etc. Camp Shanks military personnel interested in entering the contest are urged to contact the Special Services Division for entry blanks and additional Information. Na tional prizes will consist of certifi cates entitling the 'Winner to pur chase craft materials and supplies through the Army Exchange Service. Medics Lead Softball Loop WithSixWins By T/4 I&CHARD E. REYNOLDS The Medics softball squad -in creased its league lead in the post softball loop this week, winning its sixth straight game handily. Tech nical Services, previously undefeat ed, was toppled by 3367th. Jupe Pluvius won a couple tilts this week and those rained-out contests will be replayed soon. League stand ings as of Wednesday afternoon: Team Won Lost. _ Pet. Me ’ tieH 6 -»&00 Tech. Services . 5 TC Headquarters 5 .633 Operations 4 i :8«( Ordnance 3 i .760 TC Mess 4 2 .667 ■ 834th Port 3 2 .600 3367 QM g 2 __ JiML 3368 QM 1 2 .333 3366 QM 1 4 .200 Quartermaster 1 4 .200 MP 23T 0 4 .000 MP 23 0 5 .000 Police and Prison 0 5 .000 Winning its second league vie- Entertainment Today, August 3 — Theatres 1 and 4, “ Over 21, ” Irene Dunne, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn. Theatre 2, “ The (Southerner, ” Zachary Scott, Betty field. Theatre «, \Anchors A weigh, ” frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, K'athryn (■ray son. August 4 — Theatres 1 and 4, “ The Gay Senorita, ” Jinx falkenburg, Steve Cochran, “ Arson Squad, ” frank Al bertson, Kobcrt Armstrong. Theatre 2, “ Oxer 21. ” Theatre 6, \On Stage Everybody, ” Jack -Oakle, Peggy Kyan. August & —Theatres 1 and 4, “ George White Scandals, ” Jack Haley, Jonu Davis. Theatre 2, “ Over 21. ” Theatre 6, “ The Southerner. ” August ft — ^Theatres 1 and 4, \George White Scandals. ” Theatre 2, “The Gay Scuorlta, ” “ Arson Squad.” Theatre 6, \Over 21. ” August J — Theatres 1 and 4, “ The Hidden Eye, ” Edward Arnold, Trances Rafferty. Theatre 2, “ George White Scandals'* Theatre 6, “ Over 21. ” August 8 — Theatres 1 and 4, “ The Princess and the Pirate, ” Bob Hope, Victor McEogieb. Theatre 2, . “ George W hite .Scanduls. ” Theatre 6, “The Gay Senorita, ” “ Arson Squad. ” August 9 — Theatres 1 and 4. “ Guest Wife, ” Claudette Colbert, Don Amerhe, Theatre 2. “The Princess and the Pirate.\ Theatre 6, “ George While Scanduls. ” Hasten Jap Suicides Washington (CNS) — Two destroy* ers shot down 3& Jap suicide plane* in 105 minutes dff Okinawa, estab lishing a record for ships of their size, the Nqjiy announced. Both vessels, the Evans and the Nndley, were damaged in the action. PVT. DROOP vqh ' t « ack , into trouble ! havonal fxrrrr couwot to-ry, 3367th QM nosed out 3368th this week, 10-9. Tolbert ’ s 8th inning home run with two out broke a 9-9 deadlock. The score: 33B8 A II It 11 1 3397 (fH AB K 11 Steward 3b 4 W ’ ilk ’ son If 4 Marsha) 1 sf 3 Fredrick c 4 Jackson ss 3 L. Smith lb 4 Robinson cf 4 C. Smith 2b 3 Butler rf 2 Ray p . 3 M'Ca ’ non sf 4 Byrd 2b 1 2 Davis 2b 3 Romax lb 4 Hitchcock c 4 Tolbert 3b Harp If Veasey ss l M ’ rw ’ th'rrf Short cf Reid p Cameron p Hughy p Totals 34 9 7 0 0 « 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 oj 0 (I 1 2 V^t Who Saw Nazi Cruelty Blasts Talk of Soft Peace evuoiii iiti. iMjvy w uu nrght against them, seen their •w rati on camps, seen hbw Totals 34 10 6 Technical Services, after winning four straight league tilts, was toppled this week, 1-0, by (3367th Q M. Although outhit, 3367th ’ com bined a single by Tolbert and a double by Hitchcock to provide the winning margin. The score: T. C. Co. AB R H1 3347 QM AB R 11 i European campaign during which By M/Sgt. GEORGE BERNSTEIN “ A soft peace for the Germans? They shouldn ’ t be given anything — no freedom at all. Anybody who has fou, concen cruel they were with Other human beings couldn ’ t help but feel that they shouldn ’ t be given any breaks at all. ” With five battle stars on his chest, memories of his buddies maimed and killed by fiendish Ger man devices, and recollections of the horrors he had seen at two German concentratidn camps, T/5 Elmer “ Power-House ” Koposko of the 4th Infantry Division was grim as he railed at reports that a soft peace movement is underway. And as he passed through Camp Shanks enroute to his furlough be fore going to the Pacific to tackle Japan, Koposko said that all the. men in his outfit felt exactly the same as he did about the treat ment of Germany and “ some felt even stronger. ” It was after he had lived through some of the roughest fighting in the really ample to , show how they were. ” Koposko paused momentarily while he mentally relived some of his most vivid battle experiences. Then he told about hie closest brushes with death. \Artillery shells rained close a couple of times but it was. almost living death while we were fight ing through the Huertgen Forest, where the Jerries put up a terrific battle, '/he Jerries apparently had been nreparing for a long'time, for the forest was strewn with mines, booby traps, death dealing devices of all sorts, in addition to thoir pill boxes, v machine gun nests, other fortifications and their won derful natural defenses. Mines Were Thick “ You would be feeling your way , around with a buddy and the nexi cruel Germans in two separate sectors of the Siegfried line, swept into Lpxembourg and became swirled in the historic German counter attack of December 1944. when Von Rund- stedt attempted to smash through pur lines in the Battle of the Bulge. The 4th Division held at the left shoulder of Von Rundstedt ’ s spear heads and was majorly responsjfble for thwarting the German counter thrust. Germany Came Next Koposko and his outfit battled their way through the Hueitgc-n Forest, went to Southern France for a brief rest and returned to Southwest Germany for further hectic engagements. It was dur ing the advance through Southwest Germany that Koposko saw the notorious concentration camps. With the European battles pest 0-j he won his bronze star that he had 9 J an opportunity to see the German concentration camps, one of which j : was near Wurtzberg and the other j ' outside of Munich. 0 | Thousands of Bodies J “ It was horrible, ” he said. ” ‘ T will ® : never forget. There was a terrible stench of death all over the place. _ __ There were thousands of dead l 2 J bodies stacked up like wood. Some ! of the men had been starved to Medics won its sixth straight tilt I death; others beaten .to • death; easily last week, 6-1. Wolden re- ■ others locked in buildings and lieved Gbadwick of the hurling burned to death. I don ’ t see how*, DiLapi. 2b 2 Mitzel cf 3 Rrueato ss 2 Ad ’ m ’ tls 3b 3 P'ckti ’ m lb 3 Janulls p 3 Lowry sf Easley rf Segal If Ferri If DiBello c 0! M'Cau ’ on sf 3 OjVeaspy ss 3 ‘ 1 1 Short 2b 1 Oi Dftvis 2b X oj Tolbert 3b 2 lIHUchCVk C 2 Oj Harp If 1 2 1 Moore cf 1 0; M'rw ’ th'r rf 2 0j Lamias lb 2 0 Hughy P* 2 Totals 24 0 4| Totals chores and he gave up only five hits to the 3366 squad. The score: Metlif s A B R H : 3 JOS G M AB R II Quadrino If 3 VVilk lb 3 Herzbachrf 2 1 1 am* 1 i f 3 O ’ Neil 2b 2 Wolden p 3 Dorman ..sf X 0 Oj.lames if 3 1 X j Connors rf 2 0 OJAmerlingp 3 0 I !Johnson 3b 3 1 01 Williams ib- 3 X IjOerrano ss 3 X 11Allen sf 3 Beduzzi sf X T Oj Floyd t 2 Lukas'n 3b 3 X SjThomps'n 2b 2 Tverra ss 3 Ch'd'w ’ k c 2 Totals 26 K 8 Davison cf 2 Totals 26 X 5 Technical Services resumed its i . ,, „ wimiinR stride Tuesday, drubbing j'f\ otu i '^ * c j,s leadlntr from compuny a hurler pe.in.tted ,. £ bodies «hlcb Ihe m. ” ’ Germans bad intended hauling away but. never had the human beings could ever be so cruel to other humans. ” He saw bayonet gashes on the bodies of thf lately; killed; bloody bruises, on the battered heads of others who had been beaten with rifle butts and clubs; saw heads cleaved open and detached aims and legs strewn around. “ The Germans who ran the camps had fled before our advance elements arrived and we had no chance at the time to overtake them. Before we came they k;Hed everybody and then took off. Some of the burned bodies in the gutted 1.4 1 <V LXIXVAIA Y CAlAVa V. 41 V- l A \ -\V. • J • . thing you know he would be blown ; and ' vit ^ battles against the Japa up in the air minus legs or 1 arms. 1 ahead, ^ he uttered this perUng Yes, it was a very, very rough bat- ! thought before leaving for hie fair- tie and we had to fight like hell lough home. ah the way before we cleaned the ! \Our guys fought the beet they Germans out. ” j knew in Europe. We saw how the The husky, 21-yeatvold Infantry- 1 Germana treated others and know man, a native of Uniontown, p a ., how they would have treated us was staged at Camp Shanks in Feb-, they won. They shouidn t have ruary of 1944, went to England. ! any freedom. Everybody ought to and then invaded Normandy on J know them ’ and they Would feel D plus 2 in Juhe 1944. He earned the same way. , his bronze star in Normandy when he and a buddy wiped out a ma chine gun nest which had been holding up the advance of the right flank of their regiment. He was in several hot battles while the Cherbourg Peninsula was being taken, moved over to St. Lo and HOW Wows ’ Em Berlin (CNS) - GIs stationed here get their jive and news bulletins from radio station HOW, whuch stands for Hell on Wheels, the was in the spearhead forces that motto of the 2d Armored Div. This broke through at St. Lo and de- ' outfit rigged up a portable tinns- cided the rest of the campaign in j mi tier atop the Titania Theatre. France. j it was a range of about 20 miles The 4th Division also tackled the J and is on the air at obow-time. outfielder, scampered all the way homp ■ when a Q M outfielder dropped his deep fly. The score: 3 JM : tJM AB n H T. S. Co. All R H G. Wims rf 3 Crowner If 3 Amerling p 3 Johnson 31) X G ibbs ss 3 Floyd C 2 A. W ’ lms sf 3 Gerard 2b 3 Rob ison of 2 Ceasar lb 2 Tracy cf 3 DiLapi 2b 4 Brucato ss' 4 Janulis c 4 Segal lb 2 A Ad'm'itis 3b 3 Mitzel If i Sllberni ’n sf 3 I«wny rf 2 9j DiBello p 3 Ferarl cf 0 0 0 Totals 25 2 3j Totals 30' 8 Col. Riley Sums Up Record . ’ ‘ S. Of Transportation Corps • y.. . ■ _______ V _______ \■ (Continued from Page One) .deployment of our full resource* _ _______ j fi om Europe to the Pacific. It is following letter from Major Gen. j a stern test for transportation, the Gross to Maj. (ren. Clarence H. j greatest test our Corpa will be Kells, Commanding General, j called upon to meet in 'this war. NYPE: j That is the hard fact whi„ch. any “ Dear General Kells: j observance of bur coming bir thday “ WC will shortly reach our third J must emphasize. Despite the vastly anniversary- as a Corps on 31 July more complicated problems of sup- 1945. It has been a year notable j ply in the Pacific, we must mobil- for the collapse of Germany be- ize our forces there in much less fore the overwhelming might of time than. We had in Europe. This i. . . „ u Q „ofour Allied Armies. Transportation is a chantage-wjrich a still young chance to. “ Yes, all those people talking seen how they treated others. They might change their minds. Murdered Yanks, Too \And it wasn ’ t only to the Euro pean prisoners that they were so cruel. We know definitely that during the battle of the Bulge they lined up American prisoners and mowed them down with machine 9 gun fire. That is juat another ex- ABCfeh-iwM both here and overseas officers and men of the Transportation Corps saw to it that reinforcements and supplie® kept pace with our rapidly, advancing combat units. I am proud of our performance, of your part in it, and of the cooperation of all those serving under you. “ We -have already passed into another phase of the war — the re- to with enthusiasm and assurance. “ You and all members of your command, both military and civib ian, have my gratitude for the fine job that is behind us. Our service together has written a shining page in transportation acctunpliah- ment. We must add hew lustre to It during the difficult day* that are now upon un.\ T Ji' “ v4 & \ ' ■
