The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean War Edition
The Stars and Stripes published in Loops Italy delivers Monday June 26 1944 content with editors Col Robert White and Capt Robert JenFon and staff in Rome. The edition notes editorial service credits from United States News Service and Army News Service and prints in the Via del Prioretta building in Rome.
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Stars and Stripes
Mediterranean
E.R. Armed Forces
Italy
Japlicaons
Robert White
Robert
Revie
Hilary BK. Lyons
United As News Service
Army News Service
Ht Hessaggero
Rome
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A partial list of staff and personnel names appears, including David Golding Milt Lehman Al Kohn Paul Green Bill Mauldin 4yric Hopper Stapley BMeftuolf Ray Reynolds Jack Heymond and several corporals and privates. The fragment lacks context and actions.
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Seis
David Golding
Milt Lehman
al Kohn
Paul Green
Bill Mauldin
4Yric Hopper
Stapley
Ray Reynolds
Jack Heymond
Robert Flei
Wade Jones
Edmund F. Hogan
John Lawter
Party Bosses Cut Chicago Outlay Through Cooperation
Chicago June 25 Ambrose O Connell and Walter Hallanan chairmen of Democratic and Republican convention committees work side by side sharing expenses and facilities at the Chicago stadium and Stevens Hotel They plan to reuse bunting banners and bands to cut costs while lodging about 3000 delegates and newspapermen The city covers stadium costs and a Chicago citizen provides 50000 to each party, a rate down from four years ago due to local merchants lack of incentive to subsidize a long convention.
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Chicago
Ambrose O'Connell
Walter Hallanan
Abbott and Costello
O'Connect
Democratic
Harlawian
Chicago Stadium
Stevens
O’connell
Hallanan
American Legion
Danish Sabotage in Copenhagen Armament Factory Blown Up
London reports on June 21 Denmark’s largest sabotage act as Sweden’s radio declared a Danish armament factory in Copenhagen was blown up. The single facility was the nation’s only such factory.
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London
Denmark
Copenhagen
Congress Votes War Price Bills
Congress passes wartime price wage and rent control extension for one year awaiting President Roosevelt’s signature. Textiles become under ceiling rules to ensure full parity returns to cotton producers. President Philip Murray criticizes the measure saying it cannot be enforced and will not control prices or rents.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
Philip Murray
Rome Troop Discipline Criticized By Reader Letter
A reader letter laments lax discipline among American troops in Rome and calls for maintaining high standards of courtesy, arguing Rome’s global importance warrants respectful conduct. The note references Bill Mauldin cartoons and a dissenting critique from Agnes Lyle to the Sunday Oklahoma paper.
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Breeding
Agnes Lyle
Sunday Oklahoman
Bill Mauldin
Mauldin
Africa
Mauldin's Men Letter From Ada Triggers Troop Living Talk
A Sunday Oklahoma clipping cites a Ada Oklahoma writer criticizing conditions faced by combat troops. The correspondent asserts the writer lacks understanding of military life and suggests many others share that misconception.
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Sunday Oklahoman
Ada
Okla
Field Battery Officers Give Beer To First Graders
Veterans letter describes a World War II field artillery battery still groggy over a perceived wrong. On a Thursday night the officers reportedly drank beer that should have gone to the unit, then attempted appeasement by gifting it to three third graders. The writer questions the legitimacy of the practice and the war effort.
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Cassino
Fox
Frontline Whimsy And War Tales From Home Front
A mix of humorous and dramatic vignettes from the war era includes Tom Mitchell crafting a mandolin from a five gallon water drum in San Angelo Texas, a magpie mascot on O Kinsey in Sweetwater, Texas, Lt Gordon Vega of Jackson Heights New York incidentally using a bazooka to stop a Nazi Tiger, and Pvt C A McMillan of Littlefield Texas spinning a tall ambulance tale during an artillery barrage as a guard jokes about noise.
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Pic
Tom Mitchel
San Angelo
Tex
Tom
Italy
Gordon Vega
Jackson Heights
Vega
C. A. McMillan
Littlefield
Texas
Mac
Air Cors
Air Corps Guard
Joe
Mack
Tham
Security Sought by Medal of Honor Winners
NEW YORK June 25 Wounded service men returning to the States want security rather than sympathy Lt Ernest Childers Broken Arrow Okla and T Sgt Charles E Commando Kelly Pittsburgh both Medal of Honor recipients who spoke in New York as guests of the Disabled American Veterans The boys don't want sympathy they want to go back to the front if they can They want security Those able to return to duty should be aided back to normal life mentally and physically and then given a job.
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New York
Ernest Childers
Broken Arrow
Okla
Charles E
Kelly
Pittsburgh
Italy
Childers
Padre Knows Good Liquor in Kesselring Hideout
ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS June 25 Allied troops found two dozen Chianti and dock bottles in the office of German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring at his hillside hideout north of Rome. The complex included a tunnel system hundreds of feet long with a railway, offices, power plant, printing presses, signal gear, telephone exchange, storerooms, dormitories and a sick bay.
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Albert Kesselring
Italy
Rome
Kesselring
Blue Dress at Piazza Venezia in Rome After Allied Entry
Three weeks after the Allies entered Rome, an American unit recalls a morning in the city. A girl in a blue dress and blue ribbon symbolized hope as soldiers, amid vermouth and vivid memories, wandered to a veiled Piazza Venezia and lingered on the possibility of peace and return.
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Rome
France
Albergo Grande
America
Colosseum
Vatican City
Via Roma
Piazza Venezia
Vermouth
Normandy
Red Cross
Bind
Tiber
Taust
ARC Worker Mary Mulcahey Receives Cross of Malta
Naples June 25 Mary V Mulcahey is awarded the Cross of the First Class of the Order of Malta for distributing clothing to civilian war victims in Naples. A New York City native she is believed to be the first American woman honored with this award.
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Naples
ARC
Mary V. Mulcahey
Order of Malta
New York City
Mulcahey
Reveille Revels to News and Music on June 16 Broadcasts
A June 16 radio programming schedule for the Fifth Army station lists Reveille Revels at 6:00 and 6:45 a.m., followed by BBC RBC and USA News, then a sequence of music shows, Andrews Sisters, Jerry Seara Orch, Carmen Cavalero, Ginny Simms, Rhythm Club, and World News segments, concluding with USA News and autograph programs.
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BBC
RBC
USA
Lopez
News
Jerry Seara Orch
Duke Bor
Basi
Carmen Cavalero
BBG
Ginny Simms
The
Rhythm Club
Spoytereannie Safes
Bred Waring
Your Radio Theater
Ole Oaken
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