Lucille Ball, war prisoners’ pinup
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Col. Roosevelt ended brawl, battered civilian says
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Banker urges repeal of credit regulation
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Ad-Daleel (November 22, 1944)
The Arabs telegraph to Roosevelt
They assured him that they would not deviate even one hair from their jihad against Zionism in Palestine. The Reuters Company received news in a telegram from Cairo stating that four Arab political societies had telegraphed to President Roosevelt asking him, after he won his election to the Presidency, to renounce the promises and covenants he had made during the election campaign in support of the demands of the colonialists. The Zionists are in Palestine to make it their national homeland, and they prove in the telegram that they will not hesitate to spend their money and lives in this jihad against Zionism.
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Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (November 22, 1944)
FROM
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ORIGINATOR
PRD, Communique Section
DATE-TIME OF ORIGIN
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(9) DEFENSOR, OTTAWA
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Special Communiqué No. 5
Metz was completely liberated at 1500 today.
The XX Corps of the Third Army, commanded by Gen. Walker, made the actual attack through Metz.
Gen. Eisenhower sent the following message to the commanding general of the Third Army, through the commanding general of the Twelfth Army Group: “I congratulate the Third Army on its success in restoring to France, the historic city of Metz.”
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 187
Further reports of the air strikes in and around Manila on November 18 (West Longitude Date) reveal the following total damage to shipping and Installations by planes of the Third Fleet:
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One medium cargo ship and one small coastal cargo ship set afire in Subic Bay.
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Two medium cargo ships burning and one small coastal cargo ship sunk near San Fernando.
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One cargo ship burned and another burning in Manila Bay.
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An oiler in flames and one medium cargo ship and two other oilers hit in Manila Bay.
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Five luggers burning off Batangas and another sunk at Laoag.
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Locomotive destroyed at Lucena.
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Our planes strafed a heavy cruiser which appeared to be beached or in shallow water near Santa Cruz.
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Ten fires were started in fuel dumps at San Fernando, Del Carmen Field and Clark Field while buildings and other installations were destroyed at West Lipa, Nichols, Malvar and Del Carmen Fields.
Liberators and Lightnings of the 7th Army Air Force on November 21 strafed and bombed airfields on Truk. Five enemy fighters were seen of which four were destroyed.
Fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing on November 19 hit Babelthuap in the Palaus, setting fuel dumps afire, and pounded the airfield on Yap.
Defenses on Rota in the Marianas were pounded by fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing on November 19.
Schlechtes Gewissen der Anglo-Amerikaner –
Greuelhetze statt Antwort aufs Japans Protest
Tokio, 22. November –
Als Antwort auf den berechtigten japanischen Protest wegen Beschießung der Schiffbrüchigen der Taiei Maru haben die Anglo-Amerikaner eine unerhörte Greuelhetze gegen Japan gestartet. Dabei wird die Versenkung des mit 1.300 englischen und australischen Kriegsgefangenen besetzten japanischen Dampfers Schonan durch ein feindliches U-Boot zum Anlass völlig unhaltbarer Angriffe genommen.
Nach den feindlichen Meldungen kamen hierbei ungefähr 170 Kriegsgefangene, die größtenteils von feindlichen U-Booten aufgenommen wurden, mit dem Leben davon. Die Überlebenden haben dann über ihre Kriegsgefangenenzeit berichtet, wobei sie zwar mehrfach Beiworte, wie „entsetzlich“ und „furchtbar“ anwendeten, jedoch trotz offensichtlicher Übertreibungen kaum Tatsachen erwähnten, die zu Lasten der japanischen Behörden ausgelegt werden könnten.
Ohne die amtliche japanische Darstellung über diesen Vorfall abzuwarten, sei bei dieser Gelegenheit daran erinnert, wie oft die japanische Regierung ihrerseits bereits wegen unmenschlicher Behandlung japanischer Internierter und Kriegsgefangener und wegen der Angriffe auf Lazarettschiffe Protest einlegen musste.
1942 und 1943 protestierte die japanische Regierung bereits zweimal über die Behandlung japanischer Zivilinternierter in Indien. Die Internierten, die, zusammengepfercht wie die Tiere, von Malaya und Burma auf kleinen Frachtschiffen nach Indien gebracht wurden, hat man ihrer gesamten Habseligkeiten beraubt. In Neu-Delhi wurden die Japaner in überfüllten kleinen Zelten untergebracht, die keinen Schutz gegen Kälte boten und bei Regenwetter unter Wasser standen, so dass man sich nicht hinlegen konnte. Die Ernährung und die sanitären Anlagen waren so mangelhaft, dass viele an Dysenterie erkrankten und 110 starben.
Im Februar 1943 wurde In einem Kriegsgefangenenlager auf Neuseeland wegen einer geringfügigen Auseinandersetzung über Arbeitsfragen mit Maschinengewehren auf die Japaner geschossen, wodurch 48 getötet und 63 verwundet wurden. In den Vereinigten Staaten wurden nach Kriegsbeginn mehrere Japaner, darunter auch Frauen, gelyncht und japanische Häuser in Brand gesteckt. Am übelsten wurden japanische Männer und Frauen in Davao bei heftigem Regen vier Tage lang auf einem offenen Schulhof gefangen gehalten. An den beiden ersten Tagen gab es nichts zu essen und dann täglich einmal etwas Reis mit Salz. In anderen Lagern wurden viele japanische Frauen von nordamerikanischen Soldaten vergewaltigt. Es war auch in Davao, wo zehn Japaner durch Übergießen mit kochendem Wasser, Ausstechen der Augen und Abschneiden der Glieder von den Nordamerikanern zu Tode gemartert wurden. 56 Japaner wurden von den geschlagenen und zurückgebliebenen feindlichen Truppen mit Maschinengewehren erschossen.
Das sind nur einige der empörenden Fälle, gegen die die japanische Regierung Protest einlegte, außerdem haben die Feinde bisher zehn japanische Lazarettschiffe, einige davon mehrmals, mit Flugzeugen und U-Booten angegriffen und beschädigt beziehungsweise versenkt. Auch Rettungsboote und Flöße mit verwundetem und krankem Personal wurden von den Nordamerikanern mit Maschinengewehren beschossen.
In diesem Zusammenhang sei daran erinnert, dass die Nordamerikaner aus Schädelknochen gefallener japanischer Soldaten Gebrauchsgegenstände herstellten und sogar Roosevelt als Geschenk gesandt haben. Sie haben außerdem nach altem Kopfjägerbrauch japanische Totenschädel an die Türme ihrer Tanks gebunden.
Führer HQ (November 23, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Die Wucht der feindlichen Großangriffe im Raum von Aachen hat sich gestern nach vorübergehendem Nachlassen erneut zu größter Heftigkeit gesteigert. Unsere Truppen haben weiterhin die härtesten Feuerproben bestanden und ihre Stellungen gehalten. Die Besatzung von Eschweiler, an das sich der Feind im Verlaufe der vorangegangenen erbitterten Kämpfe unter blutigen Verlusten von drei Seiten herangearbeitet hatte, entzog sich befehlsgemäß der Umfassung und setzte sich in eine Sehnenstellung östlich der Stadt ab. Der Feind verlor in der ersten Woche der neuen Abwehrschlacht bei Aachen im Ganzen 320 Panzer und mindestens 20.000 Mann. Auch unsere eigenen Verluste sind nicht unerheblich, bleiben jedoch weit hinter den amerikanischen zurück.
Telle der Besatzung von Metz behaupten sich in erbitterten Häuserkämpfen gegen den Feind, der gestern bis zur Stadtmitte Vordringen konnte.
In Lothringen halt der Gegner seinen Druck in den bisherigen Angriffsräumen aufrecht. Östlich Saarburg konnte er die lothringisch-elsässische Grenze mit Panzerspitzen überschreiten. Zabern ging verloren. In den Westvogesen halten örtliche Kämpfe mit weiter angreifenden feindlichen Bataillonen, vor allem östlich der oberen Meurthe, an.
Die Zitadelle von Belfort wurde gegen alle feindlichen Angriffe gehalten.
Die im Raum Mülhausen–Basel abgeschnittenen Kräfte des Gegners werden von unseren örtlichen Reserven angegriffen. Der Feind versuchte gestern vergeblich, unsere Sperrriegel zwischen den Südausläufern der Vogesen und der Schweizer Grenze zu durchstoßen, um die Verbindung mit seinen eingeschlossenen Verbänden herzustellen.
Deutsches Fernfeuer unserer neuartigen Waffen lag gestern auf dem Raum von London, Antwerpen und Brüssel.
Im adriatischen Küstenabschnitt erreichte der feindliche Artillerie- und Schlachtfliegereinsatz gestern eine in diesem Maße auch hier noch kaum gekannte Heftigkeit. In der Nacht trat der Feind erneut zum Großangriff mit Schwerpunkt bei Forli und an der Küste an, wobei er das Gefechtsfeld mit Scheinwerfern beleuchtete. Erbitterte Kämpfe sind besonders in einer Einbruchsstelle nordwestlich Forli entbrannt.
Aus den Donaubrückenköpfen in Südungarn werden neue, noch im Gang befindliche bolschewistische Angriffe gemeldet, die dem Feind Geländegewinne einbrachten.
Der zehnte Tag der Abwehrschlacht in Mittelungarn brachte erneut einen vollen Abwehrerfolg unserer durch die Luftwaffe wirksam unterstützten Panzer- und Infanterieverbände. Nordöstlich Budapest und im Raum von Gyöngyös wurden starke Angriffe der Bolschewisten zerschlagen und hierbei durch Verbände des Heeres 29, durch Schlachtflieger und Flakartillerie der Luftwaffe weitere 35 Panzer abgeschossen. Eigene Gegenangriffe führten zu Stellungsverbesserungen und zur Vernichtung abgesprengter feindlicher Kräfte.
Der Theißbrückenköpf der Bolschewisten nordöstlich Tokaj wurde durch eine ungarische Division bis auf einen schmalen Uferstreifen beseitigt. Südwestlich Ungvár scheiterten auch gestern die Durchbruchsversuche mehrerer Sowjetdivisionen.
Die Luftwaffe bekämpfte im ungarischen Raum mit nachhaltiger Wirkung feindliche Panzerspitzen und den Nachschubverkehr der Sowjets.
Die Angriffe der Bolschewisten in Kurland verloren gegenüber der ungebrochenen Abwehrkraft unserer Truppen an Wucht. Ein vorspringender Frontbogen wurde befehlsgemäß begradigt, nachdrängender Feind abgewiesen.
Im Südteil von Sworbe hält die Besatzung, unterstützt durch das Feuer unserer Seestreitkräfte, ihre Stellung weiter in schwerem Kampf gegen zusammengefasste feindliche Angriffe. Sicherungsstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine versenkten vor der Ostküste der Halbinsel ein sowjetisches Schnellboot.
Nordamerikanische Terrorbomber griffen das südliche Reichsgebiet an und warfen Bomben auf verschiedene Städte. In München wurde die Frauenkirche durch Sprengbombenvolltreffer schwer getroffen, andere Kulturdenkmäler wurden beschädigt. Luftverteidigungskräfte schossen 19 feindliche Flugzeuge, darunter 15 viermotorige Bomber, ab.
Bei einem Angriff bulgarischer Panzerkräfte im Raum nördlich Pristina vernichtete der Feldwebel August Holz vom Grenadierregiment 16 sechs feindliche Panzer und brachte dadurch den feindlichen Angriff zum Stehen.
Südöstlich Budapest zeichnete sich das ungarische I. Bataillon des Fallschirmjägerregiments 1 unter Führung von Hauptmann Tassonyi in tagelangen schweren Kämpfen besonders aus.
Bei den Kämpfen um Hatvan verhinderten die 6. und 8. Batterie des Flakregiments 24 in tapferem Ausharren Schulter an Schulter mit ungarischer Infanterie unter Abschuss von 13 Panzern den Durchbruch eines sowjetischen mechanisierten Korps.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (November 23, 1944)
FROM
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ORIGINATOR
PRD, Communique Section
DATE-TIME OF ORIGIN
231100A November
TO FOR ACTION
(1) AGWAR
(2) NAVY DEPARTMENT
TO (W) FOR INFORMATION (INFO)
(3) TAC HQ 12 ARMY GP
(4) MAIN 12 ARMY GP
(5) SHAEF AIR STAFF
(6) ANCXF
(7) EXFOR MAIN
(8) EXFOR REAR
(9) DEFENSOR, OTTAWA
(10) CANADIAN C/S, OTTAWA
(11) WAR OFFICE
(12) ADMIRALTY
(13) AIR MINISTRY
(14) UNITED KINGDOM BASE
(15) SACSEA
(16) CMHQ (Pass to RCAF & RCN)
(17) COM ZONE
(18) SHAEF REAR
(19) NEWS DIV. MINIFORM, LONDON
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NONE
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IN THE CLEAR
Communiqué No. 229
The Allied advance continues in the Venlo sector. We have captured Maasbree and are less than four miles from Venlo. Farther north, our forces have taken the village of Amerika on the Deurne–Venlo railway.
West of Roermond, our troops have advanced to the bank of the Meuse River opposite the town and have captured the village of Weerd.
In the Geilenkirchen sector, our forces advancing toward the Roer River have taken Höven and are on the high ground beyond Gereonsweiler. We are approaching Koslar, two miles west of Jülich.
In the area northeast of Eschweiler, fighting is in progress in Neu-Lohn. Dürwiss and Eschweiler have been cleared of the enemy.
We are making slow gains in the Hürtgen Forest against intense small arms, mortar and artillery fire.
Northeast of Thionville, allied armored elements are advancing northward beyond the German border in the area of Tünsdorf.
Metz has been entirely cleared of the enemy, but several outlying forts continue to resist.
Gains have been made by our forces north of Faulquemont, and east and northeast of Dieuze we have reached Rorbach, Angviller-les-Bisping and Belles-Forêts. Forward elements are beyond Kuttingen and are in the vicinity of Mittersheim.
Our units drove into the Lower Alsace Plain within 20 miles of Strasbourg and the Rhine River. Saverne, eastern gateway of the Saverne Gap, was occupied and our forward elements advanced elsewhere in this area.
Saint-Dié, burned by the enemy, has been entered and extensive gains made east of the Meurthe River.
In the Belfort Gap, a strong enemy counterattack has been repulsed. Most of Belfort has been cleared. Gains were made in the area of Mulhouse, which has been freed.
Fighter-bombers yesterday attacked road and railway transport in the Colmar and Strasbourg areas, but generally bad weather throughout the day prevented other air operations.
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 188
Matsuwa in Kurils was bombarded by a naval task force on November 21 (West Longitude Date). Large fires and explosions were observed. Enemy guns did not reply. None of our ships was damaged.
Fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing destroyed an ammunition dump and set fire to trucks and a barge at Babelthuap in the Northern Palau Islands on November 20. One of our planes was lost, but the pilot was rescued.
Fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing bombed the airstrip on Yap on November 20.
Aircraft of the 7th Army Air Force bombed and strafed shipping and harbor installations at Chichijima and Hahajima in the Bonin Islands on November 20. One enemy plane was seen over Chichijima. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate.
Venturas of Fleet Air Wing Two bombed and strafed the barracks area and power plant on Wake Island on November 22. A large explosion was observed north of the power plant. Anti-aircraft fire was meager and inaccurate.
Search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two and fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing continued neutralization raids in the Marshall Islands on November 21 and 22.
The Ypsilanti Daily Press (November 23, 1944)
ALLIES DRIVE TOWARD STRASBOURG
Make seven-mile thrust through newly breaches gap at town of Saverne
Soldiers get holiday turkey
By the Associated Press
Thanksgiving came today to American fighting men in the full tide of battle – on a turkey wing and a prayer, a prayer of confidence and hope from a nation in its third wartime observance of a great American tradition.
Many civilian tables throughout the country were lacking turkey hut there was no lack of it for soldiers and sailors at home and abroad.
Advance rapid
Meanwhile, U.S. and French armored and infantry forces drove at a rapid pace from two directions today toward Strasbourg on the Rhine, the largest French city still in German hands.
On the northeast, a French tank column, strongly flanked by U.S. forces, was less than 19 miles away after spearing beyond the town of Saverne in a seven-mile thrust through the Saverne Gap – first of the Vosges passes to be entirely forced since the French 1st Army breakthrough at Belfort.
On the south, still some 50 miles away, other French forces which first reached the Rhine by way of Belfort were advancing northward from captured Mulhouse, herding before them possibly 70,000 German troops caught south of Strasbourg between the Vosges and the Rhine.
“The Sixth Army group [the 7th Army and the French 1st Armies] has a good chance of destroying thousands of the enemy,” declared Associated Press correspondent Thoburn Wiant in a dispatch from the field last night.
Advances were slower on the U.S. Third, First and Ninth and British Second Army sectors on the battle line stretching to the north.
Clear Germans out
Eighth Army troops battling strong enemy resistance have cleared the Germans out of the Cosina River loop less than four miles southeast of Faenza and captured a few more villages in substantial gains in that area below the Bologna–Rimini highway, Allied headquarters announced today.
Inch closer
Russian assault forces inched closer today to the Hungarian communications strongpoints of Hatvan, Eger and Miskolc in grim hand-to-hand fighting along the 85-mile battle line northeast of Budapest.
Chill rain and deep mud slowed Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s offensive, but the Soviet communiqué listed six villages captured and 43 German tanks knocked out against fierce counterattacks by Hungarian and SS (Elite Guard) Nazi units.
Front dispatches, emphasizing the vigor of the Nazi defense, reported 12 counterattacks were repulsed at Hévíz-Győr, a town just south of the Budapest–Hatvan railway captured yesterday by the Russians.
Russian frontline dispatches said conquered Hungary was replete with contrasts of squalid villages and luxurious castles and claimed that hundreds of Soviet citizens were liberated from years of forced labor on Magyar estates.
Other published reports here said Hungarians had been killing Russian wounded and torturing captured Red Army nurses.
Tighten precautions
U.S. fighter planes and light naval craft tightened their precautions against landing of Japanese reinforcements on Leyte Island today as Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported the enemy has apparently chosen the Limon bastion for his major stand on defending the Ormoc corridor.
No important American gains were reported in the deadlocked battle for the Ormoc corridor but Yankee infantrymen, fighting over a waterlogged terrain, drew tighter the noose they have thrown around the Japanese 1st Division at Limon. They were supported by artillery, which was laying down “steady counterbattery and interdiction fire” on the Japanese rear, the communiqué said.
Soldiers being fed in Chicago
Chicago, Illinois (INS) –
If the servicemen and women in the Chicago area fail to get their fill of Thanksgiving turkey today, it will be their own fault.
Mrs. Edward J. Kelly, wife of Chicago’s mayor and canteen chairman, says that some 21,000 pounds of turkey, 1,200 pounds of cranberry sauce, seven barrels of pickles and olives, 75 crates of celery, 1,000 pounds of potato chips and many other items, are being served Chicago’s three service centers.
Not only those who are well aware of the hospitality of the service centers will be welcome, but servicemen and women en route to new locations are being told at railway stations that the holiday repast is waiting for them free and to “come and get it.”
Marlow: ‘We are thankful, meaning me and the fish peddlers’
By James Marlow
Washington (AP) –
We are thankful today – meaning me and the fish peddlers – that we’re not living 1,600 years ago.
One of Mr. Ickes’ boys has written himself a piece about how the Romans messed up the OPA. Their own OPA. Pretty rugged, too. No jail sentences. No fines. Get out of line and you got your head chopped off. Several thousands did.
Seems the Romans had their troubles, fighting in Africa and Germany, prices going up, goods getting short, black markets. Then the Emperor Diocletian cracked down. Hard. Too hard. Blew himself right out of a job. Was about 305 AD.
He slapped price ceilings on things like shoes, lions and tigers for the zoo, fish and ladies’ girdles, 1,100 items in all.
This has been rounded up by Dr. Richard A. Kahn who is the economist in Secretary Ickes’ fish and wildlife service. He keeps our own OPA advised on fish. Used to work for OPA before Ickes got him. He’s a Latin scholar, too.
He got to prowling around in a thing called the “edict of Diocletian,” which was the Roman equivalent of our general maximum price regulations. So, he translated it. Had it published in the fish and wildlife bulletins, in case anybody wanted to read them or it.
It was a beast of an edict: 47 sections. You can see businessmen all up and down Italy yelling about all the paperwork they had to do, all the red tape, all the government regulations.
Dr. Kahn – perhaps with a little pardonable pride because of where he’s working – discovered that fish in those days cost more than pork or beef.
Good sea fish sold for 21 cents a pound, ham for 20 cents and beef for eight. Things are a little different now. But in those days. Dr. Kahn figures, people liked fish better. So, the fish peddlers were cleaning up till the edict cramped them, if it did.
It seems that edict of Diocletian was a turkey, if there ever was one. That’s because he wasn’t smart like our own OPA boys.
Our boys set different kinds of ceilings: one for the manufacturer, a higher one for the wholesaler, a still higher one for the retailer.
So, the manufacturer can sell to the wholesaler, the wholesaler to the retailer and the retailer to you and me. And they all make money. With each one down the line having a higher ceiling, each has a margin for profit.
Not old Diocletian. He set a flat ceiling price for everybody. The only one who could make a profit then was the manufacturer. He sold at the ceiling price.
Since his ceiling price was the same ceiling price for the wholesaler and the retailer, they couldn’t make a profit. They had to buy at the ceiling price and sell at the ceiling price.
It was a bottleneck. No wonder the black market got bad. Finally, Diocletian took a runout powder. Just before he quit, he made his contribution to famous last words. He said: “I’d rather raise spinach than to continue being emperor.”
Bond purchase deemed sensible
Washington –
Eric A. Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said today that buying War Bonds is a matter of “common sense investment” as well as patriotism.
He said:
War Bonds are not only the safest investment in the world today, but they bring a higher rate of interest than any comparable security.
Moreover, the War Bond buyer has the added advantage of being able to realize his money at any time without chance of loss by decline in market value.
Relatives guests at Camp Shanks
Camp Shanks, New York (INS) –
Civilians can get a Thanksgiving Day dinner, complete with turkey, plenty of butter and even ice cream and fruit punch, at Camp Shanks today, all for 75 cents.
The hitch is that to qualify, the diner must be a patent, brother, sister, wife or child of a serviceman stationed at the camp.
Camp authorities announced that because of the Camp Shanks’ complement’s “outstanding record of achievement,” the rule forbidding visitors was waited on the holiday and any member of the personnel may entertain four members of his or her immediate family at dinner.