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tor an 18-dlvlilon army been received by Eugene. recruiting oince iru... Li.rir Clark, commanding mo & . "web comprise, the l Western ami". . ,. 18-dlvlsion force, accord- r. wl officeB, is to oe an t mobile striking force, con s'1 " . noonlar army ol Guard ilons ana ..., - wirn tcnui" CT Guard, and ORC sup. InU."- nrffllnized. I I tO DO o V d and trained to a rnaxl I extent during the fiscal year ft? Sixth Army Commander tad that the new plan doea f560 " .. . ...11 mnhll 7A- Sements of the United 1 jain. in terms of fc DIH uti'"v os an initial D-Day force, . v- immediate ef- f of all elements of the Army i lam 6i.cii.cu - jeneral cruiting Office Is Signal New Congressional Directory May Need Rewrite Next Year WASHINGTON U.F A new book hit the stands today. But its chances of getting on the best seller list are remote. In fact, the Congressional Di rectory, 80th Congress, 2nd ses sion, June 1948, price $1.90, will be lucky if it's read at all. Your Congress has beat it home to do some pre-election tub whacking. It may not come back until the first of the year. By that time, we'll have a new poll of the people and there will be some strange faces around. Calling, of course, for a new directory. Rewrite For instance, the authors con ceivably may have to whip up a quick rewrite of page 311, among others. Right there is says "Exe cutive Department, Harry S. Tru man, Democrat, of Independence, Mo., President of the United States, born May 8, 1884, etc. By the time Mr. T. cuts his next birthday cake, a fellow named irtive Service Law has not yet received, but he is furnish , summary as follows of the tive Service Act of 1948 to recruiting stations in the e ght ... .tales to assist military Sonnel in answering queries ...hnrlied active duty Imths: Army: 837,000 plus 110,- trainees- imvj, 666,882 plus oo.uuu and air force: 502,000 15,000 trainees. This is a , 5.005.882 with 181,000 official copy of the new lines: nees, Lbt VOTE OF 1845 I0STON IUJ-J copy vi Boston Almanac lor loio, oug h William Harrington, con- Lt the following sports note: r TV WaK,1.1 sm Fnna nuu ot i uwutu. Mng got a bad reputation, It be 1 th resort of low people, Mr. irlff Choate pounced upon them arrested seven gamDiers wno n flehting cocks, valued at 100." QUAKER Curtain Stretchers New Amltable fjOHNSON FURNITURE CO. Willamette Phone Z6M WHEELBARROWS CLARK BROS. HARDWARE i 1991 TTCSa BUI 1 UVUI O Wanted to Rent Register -Guard employee needs furnished house or apartment. One child 7 rears old, A responsible couple who will take good care ol your property. phone Mr. Wells at 2038-1 or 6300. Tom Dewey hopes to be sitting on the balcony the man from Missouri built. Looking down across the rolling acres of the White House lawn at the shrubbery and flow ers. And then again, of course, Mr. Truman may stay (here and on page 311. Long-Timer Some of the fixtures in the di rectory have been there since you and I were young. Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, since 1917. Sen. Arthur Capper, the Kansas publisher, since 1018. He Isn't run ning for another term and won't be in the next edition, And there's the dean of the House, Rep. Adolph Sabath of II linois, who has been around since 1907 The vice-president space, which has been empty since FDR died and Mr. Truman moved up a notch, remains empty. But a cou ple of other people have an eye on that. Anzio Beachhead Still Shows Tragic Scars of Bloody Battle r, mon my way t0 ' ANZIO, Italy, (UP) The Germans killed 2800 American soldiers here four years ago. Driving down to the beach at Anzio from the rubble town of Cisterna, you see a few farm chil dren wearing overseas caps. The houses along the gravel road are mostly ruins. Here and there small herds of sheep are grazing. The red brick silos that dot the horizon have baen out of action for years. The big shells of the Ameri cans and Germans fired at each other for nearly four months left the silos full of holes two and three feet across. Occasionally you see a high ten sion electric tower bent over like a hollyhock stem that a dog has run into. There are not many of them, though. There are no burned-out tanks or field pieces either, no landing craft rusting in the shal lows the way It is on Iwo Jima in the Pacific. j Metal Precious j Most of the metal in this area was carried away within a fewj months after the war. The Italians need every scrap they can get. Where the road from Cisterna : comes to the beach and turn r'ght toward Nettuno and Anzio, there la a plain marble shaft. It memorializes the army units that fought their way across the : wide coastal plain to Cisterna, back on the Applan Way. Up the road a few miles on a slight rise the bodies of the Amer ican dead lie burled under a field of white crosses. The Germans wounded 11,000 Americans and captured 2400 in the campaign between Jan. 22 and May 25, 1944. Many of the cap tured were paraded through the streets of Rome, which is only 27 miles northeast of hehe. The allies had regarded the landing as a short cut to taking Rome. They didn't foresee that their forces would be stalled at about the same time in the south by a German refusal to withdraw from Cassino. When that happened, Anzio became an isolated struggle to keep a foothold far behind the main enemy defense line. If you drive the Appian Way from Naples to Rome on a clear day, you see why the Americans chose Anzio for their short cut to Rome. Much of the coastal plain from Naples to Rome is very narrow. In some places the distance from the beach to the Appenine Mountain range is not more than five or six miles. Some of it is marsh land that was drained once by the Fascists but was reflooded by the Nazis during the war. At Anzio the coastal plain is more than 25 miles wide and the footing Is firm. Almost Intact The towns of Nettuno and Anzio are surprisingly intact. That is be cause the allied troops didn't run into opposition on the beaches. They landed at 2 a. m. under cover of a naval bombardment and with in 10 hours reached all major ob jectives. They were able to do so without demolishing the two small major resort towns, although a few buildings had to be knocked down to make a path for the invading army. The heavy fighting of the next four months was between Anzio and Cisterna. Mbst of the damage was caused by incoming German shells, including those from' the notorious "Anzio Annie," a long- range rifle In the Rome suburbs. Towns back on the Appian Way Cisterna, for Instance, and Ca pua, Formia and Averse are shells of rubble, Writer Fears Germans Itch For Fighting FRANKFURT, Germany (U.RV Fritz von Unruh of New York, well-known German-born writer, feart that "the real democratic forces of the German people may be too weak to overcome national ism." Unruh, touring western Ger many, said In an interview that he had not expected a democatlzed German people. "I fear that those who endeavor to establish a real democracy In Germany will try in vain because of the dangerous rebirth of nation alist movements," he said. Unruh said recent developments In Hesse, where the newly-founded National Democratic Party charged to be fascist by the mili tary government could make sub stantial election gains are "disap pointing and alarming. Blames U. 8. Partly He added that the U. S. military government attitude toward the German problem in some cases furthered nationalists and mllitar ists feelings. He mentioned the recent announcement of an Amer ican foreign legion and said, "this could become the death blow to all anti-militarist, endeavors fa Ber- many." Unruh said that "if you ask t German whether he would be will ing to become a soldier again, he undoubtedly would answer yes and not even care what he Is supposed to be fighting for." "Just give them a gun they'll ' march," Unruh said. The gray- haired writ ir, who vainly fought nationalists Germans before Hitler came to power, had left Germany in 1932 when he recognized that the wave of nationalist-militaristic forces would sweep the country. He said he plans a new book about his impressions in Germany. "It will be a tragic song of mis directed and vain attempts to re store democracy to Germany," he declared. He said he was amazed at the number of former Nazis in high positions of the present German administrations. Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Tues., July 6, 1948, Page 18 HONEYMOON INTERRUPTED FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) The man missed $41 from his purse, saw a shadowy figure on the roof next door and called police. A 17-year-old youth was Jailed. Parents of the embarrasssed youth got him out with an explanation: he was not a burglar; he was on the roof playing hide and seek with his bride. LITTLE TOES SHRINKING JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UP) Future Americans may have no little toes if the present trend con tinues, in the opinion of Dr. Fred erick A. Pelletier, a local chirop odist. Pelletier says many little toes already have lost one of three bones because of the shoe styles and disuse. Birds have an internal "air. conditioning" system to cool them off from the heat produced by their muscular activity. AUTOMOBILES FOR RENT By the Mile. Hour or Day EUGENE AUTO RENTAL CO. Broadway 4 Pearl (Opposite Eugene HoteD Phone 5348 OKAS Select BEER W HtWPNa COMriKY, SAUM. 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