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The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09
League Standings
WAC Softball Team Ready
For Real Competition

WACville is on the ball these
days-and we mean that actually.
Amy and every evening now finds
group of athletically minded girls
on the ball diamond, getting a good
Softball workout. Thus far they say
they've just been playing around,
but being members of the Softball
Tournament of the Ninth Service
Command, two real games are now
in the offing and the WACs are
getting down to serious business.
Pending games are with Douglas
Air Base and Mariana Air Base.
Dates will be announced later.
WACs going out for softball are
Nellie Alums, Novella Auls, Ger
trude Cruise, Beulah Ellis, Ann
Seay, Mildred Peterson, Harristt
Warfield, Katherine Phillips, Hilda
Guy, Pearl Brown, Elizabeth Will
liams, Glennye Oliver, Richard Ad-
ans, Creadell Haley, Villa Hard
grow, Juanita Banks, Josie Camp
bell, Leana Cross. Mary S. Cook, and
Dorothy Williams.
WAC, Cruise has been selected as
captain of the team, with WAC
Paige in charge.
LIMP.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09
Officers Clubs Clash ......
In Softban Contest, F
On New Diamond


Abuse of 8-inch softballs around
Fort Huachuca is going on at a
more than destructive rate as
everybody" and we do mean "ev-
erybody" is applying himself to the
game, as participants.
Wednesday afternoon, the Noun
tainview officers and those from
the Lakeside Mess opposed each
other on the new diamond on the
Old Post, the contest going to the
higher contoured club because of
the LakeSiders inability to fish flys
from the field.
Lakeside banged out 19 hits
against MountainvieW's 10; but was
only able to bring home IL runs
while the scenery officers tailed Is.
Stickman for the Lakesiders was
their cue champion, 1t. Rudnick,
who biffed out 4 hits in 4 trips to
the plate. 1t. Anderson, of Noun
tainview, was his teams best bat
wielder, with 8 of 4 good ones.
Both teams used two pitchers.
Mountainview started Jimmy
Haynes, of the PIX and finished
with Major Stewart Haynes al
lowed 8 hits, while the Major stop
ped opponents bats by letting only
2 connect safely.
1t. c. L. Smith, of Post Hq Det,
was allowed to rest after rshe had al
lowed hits in the 1st inning for
Mountainview. His place was TAX
en- by W/O Barnaby, who held the
Lakesiders to II hits for the rest of
the game.
The defeat of the Lakesiders can
be blamed on the inability of their
defense to beat down the ball. Tow
er of strength for the Mountain
viewers was Capt. Powell, 29ths
CO, who let nothing within reach
pass him.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09
Boxing Team
Vies for Stote
Championship

A nineteen m an boxing
team, composed of soldiers
from Post, attached units and
Of various regiments of the
92nd Division, journeys to-
Williams field. near Phoenix,
Ariz., today, June 9, to partici-
pate in the statewide service
mems boxing tournament.
1t. George E. Mencer, of the
10Th Special Service company,
will be in charge Of the team,
which will be handled by Pfc. En-
NETT Jones, Medical Detachment,
.SCU.
Largest group of Huachuca box
ers will come from the 827th Tank
Destroyer Bn., which is sending
.S/Sgt Chris Tyler, Cpl Frank
Thompson, Pfc Livingstone Vaughn,
Pvt. James Robinson and Pvt. David
Grimes
Ten DiviSiOnerS on Team
From the end Division will be Pvt.
Leroy Jeffreys, 371St Inf, Pvt. Cleve-
land Brown, 365th Inf, Pvt. Joseph
E. Randall, seth F. A., Pvt. Odell
Williams, 60Oth F. A., Cpl. Edward
Garland, 365th Inf, and CPL Al
Smith 92nd MP. Plat.
Others from Division units will be
Pvt. Leon Diogenes, 500 F. A., Sgt.
Willie Strickland, 365th Inf. and
Sgt. James L. Strong, 92nd Div. Hqs.
T/5 Offerd Hines, from the Medi-
cal Det. Sou, will fight and Pvts.
James Moore and Morgan Schoon-
maker of the. 758th Tank Bn. will
participate. The 29th Spec. Serv:
Co. will send Sgt. Harold Brown.
The bouts, in which boxers from
every service installation in the state
may participate, will begin Friday
afternoon and will be carried on all
day Saturday.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09

Pfc Edward (Sharke) Hall is sub
bing as life guard at the enlisted
mems pool and he wants all the
girls and fellows to know that he is
enforcing all of the rules strictly.
They are. in accordance with Post
Memorandum No. 81:
All bathers will take shower bath
before entering pool
Each bather will place both feet
in the foot bath before entering the
pool and after leaving the pool.
All bathers visiting the toilets will
take a shower bath before re-enter-
ing the pool.
EXpectoration, blowing the nose,
or spouting of water from the mouth
into the pool is forbidden
No person who has cold or sores,
ulcers or other skin diseases, bod
lily discharges, or is wearing a band
age of any kind will be permitted
to enter the pool. as frr~r 7
No person reported by the Post
Surgeon as having or as being a
carrier of an infectious disease will
be permitted to enter the pool.
Not mare than 140 batherS will be
allowed within the pool inclosure at
any one time.
The orders, instructions or re-
quests of the pool attendants will
be complied with by all bathers.
Children under years Of age will
not be allowed in the pools
Children years of age and under
IL will not be allowed in the pool
unless accompanied by an adult
guardian
CONDUCT. All persons in or
around the pool are expected to con-
duct themselves in a genteel man
ner so as to avoid accident to them
selves or others, and to obey the
orders of the Guard.
Guards are responsible: Cd That
no person in the water is endan-
gered as to drowning (2) That
these regulations and other regula-
tions as may be issued by the Rec
reation Officer or the Officers Club
are enforced. CD That the bath
house will be cleaned thoroughly
each day and the floors washed |
down with a chlorine soluation. (
Persons wearing ordinary street,
shoes will not walk on cement walk
pool.
Absolutely no dogs allowed in pool |
nclOSure.
Pool will be opened as follows:
Week Days ...... .140O-20OO !
Saturdays ...... .13000-2O00
oulludyS ...s..... lUUU-ZUUU
The pools will be drained, cleaned, !
and refilled each Monday.
1t has also been indicated by Post /
that as soon as the !
mems pool now under con-
'truction in the New Cantonment |
area is completed the enlisted mems
pool on the Old Post will be desig- |
mated the Officers Mountainview
pool and will be used by members
Of the Officers MOlntainView Mess
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09
SCU Slump Still
Confines With
Loss to 365th

The SOU baseball team lost
whatever chance it had Of cap
turing the Fort Huachuca
league title Sunday at Foster
Field by dropping its second
league game. This time it
was the 365th Infantry team
which took the Posters meas
ure at 7 to 2 clip.
If the game had been bad
minton, the score might have
been closer, for the Sou field
ers seemed to believe that they
were handling bird" instead Of a
baseball so whiffily did they comport
themselves in their positions. Six
errors contributed to their downfall
as we'll as did their failure to punch
in the pinches. Eight potential tai
lies were left on the bases as follow
er up "hitters" missed.
Pitchers Were Good
BranSon, 365th pitcher, was on the
beam as he struck out 10 Sou bat
ters and allowed but hits Mccoy,
on the mound for the Posters, struck
out 9 infantrymen and permitted
them to sock out hits.
BY their victory, the 365th team
has the inside track for Champion
ship, having, by mid-season, won
four straight games and having lost
none.
Sou Lineup Scrambled
Although the SOU coach scrambled
his lineup in the hope of hitting up
on a hole-proof combination, it
availed him nothing. Turner, who
has played 1st base and pitched this
season, started as catcher in this
game. !, Strickland, softbau hurler,
started at 1St base, Moore at 3rd,
Young at short, and Luke at End
comprised the infield WrigE t. was
switched to centerfield, which didn t
improve his playing, while Hinton,
Nelson and Richardson got chance
to wander about in right field. Low
horne and Brown were backing up
3rd base in left field. Mccoy, COM
planning of being overworked, stuck
to his guns throughout the whole
game as hurler
For the 365th, the lineup was Give
hand, S; Strong, 3b; Jones, rf; Hills
man, 2b; Gravely and Jackson, CT;
Simpson and Thirlkill, If; Payton, C;
and Branson, p.
All Post Teams Lose
Combat soldiers of the 92nd Di-
vision triumphed in every league
game against attached units. Special
Troops licked the 827th Tank De-
stroyers 10 to 4; Division Artillery
whipped the 1316th Engineers IL to
A; and the 371st Infantry defeated
the 758th Tank Battalion Z to 5.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09
Heat Met Swimmingly
AS Pools Are Opened
For Officers and GIs

Relief from the growing heat of
Arizona is now being found by en-
listed men and officers at Fort Hua-
chuca as the pools at the Officers
Lakeside Mess and for enlisted men
at the Old Post have been opened.
A larger swimming "hole" is in proc
ess of erection near Service Club
No. and everyone who can find a
pair of trunks is invited to 'come
on in, the waters fine"
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09
Athletic Officer Attends Confab

Capt. Boyce M. Irwin, athletic Of
ficer of Sou 1922, left the Post We'd
nesday for Camp Haan, Calf, to
attend two-day conference Of the
Special Service Officers Athletic
and Recreation Program.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-06-09

Although the Post swimming
pool is opened, its permanent life
guard, Pvt. Jesse Mccain, is en-
joying life on the Atlantic coast,
for an Army fortnight. Winner of
the mems championship of the
Posts round robin competition,
Pvt. Mccain, is also a skilled ping
pong player and roller rink
maitre. Ohio claims him as one
of her native sons"
Photo by T. r. T. Gorham.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
Battle Of Humiliation Reported To Be Near End

Moscow, Feb. Il. = (UP) = Red armies closing in on the survivors of 10 German divisions trapped in the Ukraine drove spearheads with in three miles of the heart of the fast shrinking pocket today and the end of the great battle of an- initiation was reported near.
 Conveying Soviet assaults roll ing up to the rim of the pocket over battle-scarred fields carpeted with thousands of dead were believed to be on the point of over-running the tattered remnants of the Nazi force that once numbered upward of 100000
 Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin'S First Army of the Ukraine topped off and wiped out the southeastern bulge of the pocket oin the area northeast of Goroditze and sliced in within three miles of KorSun ShevchenkovSki, the core of German  resistance.
 Front dispatches said the Rus sian assault forces closing in for the kill had driven the Germa nrear guards from their outer defenses into interior lines of the enveolped area.
 Red Army artillery lined up hub to hub all around the pocket was pouring shells into the ranks of the panicky Germans in 8 slaughter rivaling that of Stalingrad, where 330,OOO Nazis were killed or cap tured.
 The German Air Force was mak- ing a last feeble effort to supply the survivors in the pocket. But a Red Star dispatch said that of 30 big Jungers transport planes bound for the area, 10 were shot down and the remainder turned away by So- viet airmen maintaining a con- stant umbrella over the doomed NAZiS.
 With the destruction of the ten divisions in its final phase, General
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
Frankfurt Blitzed
 TlUo Days M q Rolu

London, Feb. 11-(American Fly ing Fortresses striking at Germany for the second straight day today hammered the arsenal and trans port city of Frankfurt for the fourth time since Jan. 29 while Liberators and Marauders led a heavy Allied attack on the French invasion coast.
 Allied planes of all categories maintained a 'round- d-the-c -clock aS- sault on Nazi Europe with night Mosquito bombers of the Royal Air Force stabbing into Western Ger many and touching of the sirens in Berlin.
 United States LightningS, Thun- derbolts and Mustangs escorted the FortresseS to Frankfurt, which 13 days ago rocked under 8 lombard ment by the greatest daylight raid- ing force ever mobili2ed and has been the target for two other Amer ican attacks since then.
 A medium to large force of Fort rseSesseS bombed Frankfurt last Tuesday, the big bombers met only token resistance from the German air force, in contrast with the in tense battle the Nazis put up yes- terday against a Fortress fleet att tacking Brunswick.
 Preliminary report said 84 Ger ban planes were shot down in the Brunswick raid and a complement tarv ottack m a D1Itch air field while 29 American heavy bombers an deight fighters were last.
 U. s. Liberators and Marauder Medium bombers teamed with Allied fighters mad fighter bomber in the fourth straight day of intense att tackS on Northern France.
 First Accounts
 First accounts of the Liberator operations said only that the four motored bombers attacked the Pas de Calais castal strip of France. The Marauders struck at unidenti- fled militory targets in Northern France.
 The twin-engined Mosquitoes hit Berlin for the first time since Sat- urday night and also attacked un- specified targets in western Ger many, all without loss. Other bombers mined enemy waters.
 Fighters escorted the daylight bombers in the fourth straight day of raids on the Pas De Calais area of the French coast. The forma-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
MRS. 6. WOLFF, WIDELY KNOWN
 ORGANISE. DIES

Mrs. Georgianna G. Wolff of 37 Laurel street, prominent in local musical circles for more than half a century, died this morning at St. Mary's hospital after an extended illness. She was the widow of Luc- fen F. Wolff for many years identi- fled with the Scovin Manufacturing company.
 Mrs. Wolff was born in New York City in 1857 and came to Waterbury in early childhood. She was a grad uate of Notre Dame Academy and selected teaching as her vocation She was a member of the faculty of the old Porter street school for several years and numbered among her pupils many young men and women who later became prominent in various business and professional activities. She was gifted musician and on the organization of the Sacred Heart parish in 1885 &C., cepted the invitation of Rev. Hugh Treanor, newly appointed pastor, to officiate as organist. In this ca pacity Mrs. Wolff had the honor of presiding at the first services of the new congregation held in St. Patrick's hall, at that time located in the Camp Building on the corner of East Main street and Phoenix avenue.
 When the present Sacred Heart church was erected in 1886 she con- tinued as organist and choir direc- tor. Under her able tutelage, and her inspiration, the Sacred Heart
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
Soviets Bomb Finnish Port

Stockholm, Feb. 11.-(UP)-One hundred and fifty Russian planes bombed the Finnish port of Kotka. 75 miles east of Helsinki, last night, adding new weight to Soviet threats to blast Finland out of the war.
 The Helsinh correspondent of the United Press reported that eight persons were killed and two wounded in the raid, which fol- lowed Sunday nights two Red Air Force at Acks on the capital itself.
 Some Russian planes also ap- preached Helsinki last ngiht, caus- ing a half-hour alert, but they dropped no bombs.
 The extent of damage at Kotka. which lies 120 miles northwest of Leningrad on the Gulf of Finland, was not revealed immediately.
 The new raid came while the Finnish cabinet das in the midst of discussions of the Soviet threat to exact "retribution" from Finland for joining Germany in the war against Russia and an American note suggesting that the Finish make peace with Russia and get out of the war.
 Reliable sources here reported
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
U. s. Files Atrocity hargesAgainstJapar,

Washington, Feb. 11-(UP)-The United States today charged that ''the great proportion of American nationals" held by Japan are vic- tins of 'inhuman cruelty" and "cal- lous failure" to provide them with vital neceSSitiSe.
 A note of protest over the treat ment of American war prisoners and civilian internes charged Japan with violation of the common laws of civilization and (violation) of the Japanese governments under taking to apply to American na- ti0nals the hhInane provisions of the Geneva prisoners of war con- vention."
 The lengthy note contained 1S specific charges, of which the re- gently disclosed Bataan atrocities constituted only one charge.
 The protest was sent January 27 to the American legation in Gern, whence 1t was transmitted to Tokyo.
 Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who made the document public, said that no re- action had been received from the Japanese but that official notice had been received that it was lodged in their hands.
 The IS categorial charges said:
 l. Swiss representatives handling American interests in Japan have not been allowed to go every place without execution where wal. r,ris. oners and civilian internees are held and have not been permitted to interview them without wit nesSeS.
 2. Representatives of the Inter- national Red Cross committee have not been allowed to visit most plac- eS where the Japanese hold Amer jeans.
 3. Americans have not been per- mitted to send complaints to Jap
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
CIO Snubbed By .Shipyord

Bingham, Mass, Feb. 11-(UP)- Rejecting the CIO for the second time in two years, workers of the Bethlehem-H Bingham Shipyard have chosen the yards independent union as their exclusive collective bar gaining agent. Some 18,000 are em- ployed in the yard.
 The Bethlehem Bingham Ship yard Independent union received 1881 votes to 5987 cast for the In- dustrial Union of Marine & Ship building Workers of America (CIO), it was announced last night by the National Labor Relations board The no-union ballot won 399 votes, while the remainder were invali- dated for various reasons.
 The CIO defeat was its eighth in east coast shipyards in the past 1S months. War workers from Bath Me, to Newport News, Va., recently have allied themselves with the East Coast Independent Shipyard union and its affiliateS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11

London, Feb. 1i.-(UP)-Vatican circles were reported deeply con- cerned" today over 8 series of viola tions of the church's extraterritorial rights, reportedly climaxed yesterday by a third and damaging air raid on the Pope'S summer residence.
 Some officials feared the inde- pendence of the Vatican City itself may be inperilled, Bern dispatches reported.
 Popular indignation in Rome ale ready had been stirred to a new peak, frontier dispatches said, by Fascist seizure of Italian Air Gen. eraI Monti, and five other high mili- tary officers in the Basilica of st. PauIs College in the Vatican. The officers subsequently were reported executed by order of a Fascist emer- gency court.
 The gravity of the situation was md Iexlined bV EasciSt< controlled 1te edIt1I|aII fe6I1tIng f,lHt tllc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
Allies Missed Boot In ItdIy

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Feb II = U.P0 - The full story oE the German threat to the Fifth Army beachhead below Rome and the failure of the Allied command to exploit its initial success gradu- ally was coming to light today
 It has not been told before hee cause operational headquarters. Tor some reason, still believes that tho people back in the United StateN and Britain must be shielded rom anything unpleasant.
 This much can be said:
 The invasion forces have lost tn4 initiative and are on the defensive.
 They have failed to break tho stalemat, on the main front to th8 south and certainly have brougns the Allies no closer to the capture of Rome.
 They face topnotch German pi. lots from other theaterS, panxeE strength unparalleled in the ItaL$ ian campaign and all the infantry that can be spared from Southern France, Germany and northern Italy.
 There is no cause for optimism.
 The first, grudging admission from an official source of sonnes thing closer to the true picture % the beachhead came from . hea1e quarters commentator at y2ar days daily press conference.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11

Powerful German arfnOred forces and shock troops opened their lOng-expected offensive yesterday, striking in great strength all along the 14-mile Allied front.
 GA German cOmmunique said Nazi forces had captured the railroad station of Aprilia, a key point in the Allied northern flank only six airline miles from the sea and 10 miles by highway from the beachhead port Of Anzio.)
 (Radio Rome said the AL lied forces attempted several times to "sloW down the ina- petus of the. German attacksH this morning but were re- pulsed each time.)
 Official commentators said only that the fighting was continuing to indicate that the German offensive had not been turned back.
 Allied airmen, battling to turn the tide as they did at Salerno and in Tunisia's Kasserine Pass, liter ally 'threw the book" at the 0zl~ rushing Germans.
 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators spread fire and death through thousands of Nazi troops streaming into the battle area rom Alban hills. The giant raiders strewed tons of high explosives and fragmentation bombs on concentra~ tions of enemy troops and tanks at Cisterna, Albano, Velletri, Campo Leone and Cecchina.
 Simultaneously, Allied fighter bombers bombed and machine-gun- ned road lines north and south ok
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
Fine Aiminq ByGunners
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press War COrreSpOndent) Representing Combined U. s. Press.
 Anzio Beachhead Front, Feb. 10.- (UPl-The German drive which started against the northern sec tor of this beachhead Monday night was smashed in the last 24 hours by one of the most murderouS displays of controlled artillery fire in mili- tary annals.
 Combining their fire with flaw less precision, American and Britt ish heavy guns delivered a shat tering succession of 'tined crash es" in which hundreds of shells were rained on a single enemy tar- get within a period of two-min- uteS.
 Each time the attackers sought to entrench themselves in new positions, another Allied barrage would pulverize them and inflict heavy casualties.
 The Germans used every device in the books in an effort to halt the relentless hail of explosives They even tried to jap up the AL lied radio frequencieS, and once a German officer who spoke perfect English gave out an order in what was supposed to be the Allied code, telling the Anglo-American artill- erymen to "ceaSe fire!"
 Needless to say," British Artillery Capt. Andrew Lowndes told me to- day, i've weren't fooled". (Homer Bigart, also representing the combined U. s. Press at the front, reported that the Allied bom- bardment was launched by gun of every caliber at 6 a. m. yesterday after the Germans had gained con- trol of a little hilltop village over- looking the northern sector of the beachehead.
 Tremendous Hail (Bigart said the tremendous hail of explosives struck the unsuspect- ing attackers as they were con- centrated in a small community covering less than 100 acres. A building that formed the southern wall of the village vanished con- pletely in 8 thick cloud of smoke and debris, he said0
 A tour of the beachhead made party by jeep and party on foot today convinced me that the Ger mans were attempting to smash through to the beach and split the invasion forces. Then they planned to bring in armored rein
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