tor an 18-dlvlilon army
been received by Eugene.
recruiting oince iru...
Li.rir Clark, commanding mo
& . "web comprise, the
l Western ami". .
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r. wl officeB, is to oe an
t mobile striking force, con
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ft? Sixth Army Commander
tad that the new plan doea
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. 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."
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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.
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