Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1953 — Page 9

SECTION TWO

Legion Plans I Giant Parade In St. Louis Carnival City Four Days For Legion's National Conclave ST. LOUIS, Mo., UP—St. Louis, will become a carnival city for four days when 35,000 American Legionnaires and their wives ar- , rive Aug. 31 for their 35th ihation-.| al convention in the city of the

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| organization's birth; * . But while there will be the us- : ual merriment and parading, for which Legion conventions are | famed, local Legion officials pre--1 diet emphasis will be put on •‘serI ious matters” in view of troubled I world conditions. National commander Lewis K. I Gough announced that Vice l*resi- ; dent Richard Nixon will be the j principal .speaker at the opening | session. Aug. 31. Other headliners ■ who will ap- > pear duiring the convention include Secretary of State John Eos- ■ ter Dulles. Defense Secretary ■ Charles E. Wilson, Nayy Secre- > tary 'Robert B. Anderson, the sec- | ; retaries us the CIO and AFL,« and • I the of the national asso- ■ i eiati,on Os manufacturers. j i On the lighter side, local Legion •

officials have planned a giant, day-long parade 4 for Sept. I—the biggest in the city’s history-rin-volving 100,000 marchers and hundreds of drum and bugle corps. It is estimated that it will take 10 hdurs to pass a given point. National competitions for prizes totaling will be held Aug. 30 and 31 for bands, drum and bugle corps, choruses, firing squads ! and color guards. Housing A Problem The Forty and Eight, the Legion's fun-making organization, will unofficially kick off the convention on Aug. 30 with a parade of its traditional box cars and eni gines from each state. Members ! of the dressed in smocks and chapeaux. and musii cal units will also participate. To police the Legion's activities.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 13, 1953.

■HHk. Lil ■La . BF. j/AmE9 STRETCHERS ARE CARRIED from a C-54 military transport plane at Hickam Field, Hawaii, as 17 sick and wounded Americans released by the Reds reach American Boil. They are the first of the “Operation Big Switch” Americans ?Bent home, and were taken to Tripier General hospital for a rest be-. fore continuing their flight to Travis Air Force Base. Calif. (International Radiophoto)

400 St. Louis policemen, all members of the Legion, will be bn hand around the clock. Housing the' thousands of conventioneers posed a big problem for local Legion officials. With'All public housing facilities witfairt a 25-niile radius of the city protiding accommodations for 22.0 MT, 10.000 rooms in private homes were still needed. But David Fleischer, executive vice president of the local convention headquarters, citing lithe response of St. Louis residents during the last Legion convention here in 1935, said he could assure any Legionnaire planning to attend that accommodations will- be available. i . 1 ' 111 additipn to the legion itself, the Forty and Eight and auxiliaries of both organizations Will convene here simultaneously. Business sessions of the Legion and its auxiliary will be held at St. Louis’ Kiel Auditorium.

Polish Refugees Would Form Corps Free Polish Force May Be Organized PARIS, UP —The Philadelphia appeal by two refugee Polish;, pilots for formation of a free Polish fighting force focussed attention on a “forgotten army” of pgarly 225,600, demobilized and scattered with peace. Nearly of the former soldiers wh§. from the invasion of Poland to the fall of Berlin, wrote many of World Twx>’s inost gallant chapters are still in Britain. Others have scattered, but men : like wartime free Polish thief lieutenant General Wladyslaw Anders. who commanded the prack second Polish corps in wartime Italy, believe they would rally

rapidlj- to fill the ranks of a neW |ffee Polish corps. |\H Polish lieutenants Franciszek Jarecki and Sdislaw Jazwinski.: in fact, raised exile Polish spirits to one of their highest points since victory in Europe brought- demobilizatitm of ■ their units, and reduced some of their most experienced officers to dishwashing jobs. p Many of the Polish veterans have been pressing since the war for remobilization and the dramatic appeal from America's "cradle of liberty” by the twx) daring pilots whp donated two late model MIG-15 jet fighters to the west raised their hopes again. Former officers among the veterans believe such a corps could form a more important,western legion than another exile army, that of Chiang Kai Shek on Formosa. They feel that although their solpiers, like Chiang’s are aging, they have had more battle experience than Chinese nation-

alist soldiers and against a tougher foe.' Among Best Soldiers In London's Sikorski Institute, maintained by an exile government the displaced .Poles recognize, are proud battle honors and regimental flags carried by Worse cavalry units against German tqnk> in S; J 939, by soldiers in the ; Norwegian campaign, the invasion of France,4n 1940-42 at Tobruk, in Libya and the Middie East, in Italy from 1943 to 1945 and through France into Germany for final victory in Europe. They maintain that their gallantry in wartime has never .been clouded in Poland despite all of Communism's attempts. Anders, himself, Won admiration of antiCommunists j by virtue of 20 months imprisonment in Moscow’s Lublianka prison when h<S was captured after a clash with Russian forces striking into Poland at the' time of the Berlin-Moscow pact. Allied officers cohsider the men who fought for the Polish exile government among the fearless of the last world war. Their fighter* pilots were ranked among the best since the Battle of Britain. Exploits of crack Polish units in Italy are almost legendary. And the veterans have made every effort tp keep alive their hard-won

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military tradition. Thousands of the exiles received further training while serving in American and British auxiliary guard uiiits in Germany postwar. j. ; Homeland Contacts s They] have clandestine contacts with their homeland Which moris than once have served western intelligence agencies well. Many maintain they, aided considerably 'in the dramatic dash by the two MIG pilots to Bornjholm. This correspondent, for example served during the war with a regular Polish cavalry officer who charged invading German tanks on horseback in 1939; and later escaped .to London, lie was forced to liorrow money from Aipericati and British friends whon his welide<bnrted uniform Was takeh away, and he disappeared with thousands of others, almost penniless in the reshuffle. Ji The former officer, call him Major 8., reappeared however a few years later — he attributes it tn good luck t— a farmer in Africd, wealthy enough to vacation yearly on the French 'l|ivifjrh. But Major B. is willing t<\ throw, over his new wealth to rejoin a Polish free corps. How do - military experts rate the wandering exile Poles?' As possibly mqst lucrative' pool ;of untapped, war trained inaqpqwer in Eirrqpe oqtsidh Western Germany.