Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1945 — Page 11

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Joy Abounds As Gripsholm Crowd Lands

By JACK ROWLES United Press Sta® Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—The room was filled with next of kin and a low hum of conversation. A young man in a dusty blue Jacket and stocking cap walked inn. A woman in a gray suit sprang from her chair and screamed £ “There's my boy!” She ran to him and grabbed him as though she were drowning. She buried her head in his collar and eried without control. ‘srhere’s my boy, there's my boy, there’s my boy.” She couldn't stop. = ” . THERE WERE 468 American soldiers among the 1206 civilians aboard the Gripsholm when it docked with its latest cargo from inside enemy Europe, Wives and mothers waited for their men, home at last from the war. This mother was Mrs. Ethel Riggins, Norfolk, Va. She sat down, still clutching her son's coat. . The boy choked: “Oh, come on, Mom. I'm all right.” A stranger touched the mother’s shoulder, “The boy's all right,” he said, » w ” THE REUNION was last night at the Wilshire house, merchant seamen’s land quarters. The boy was George Allen Riggins, returned from two and a half years in a German prison camp. He was" a wiper aboard the 8, 8. Carlton when the ship was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine in 1942. Somehow, of tears, Mrs. Riggins remembered a single odd fact. from the millions of things she had planned to say to him, “There's a-big fruit cake wait-

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ing for you,” she said. There were other reunions all | about them. sa % » THE FRONT DOOR of Wilshire house opened and a ruddy | man in eivilian clothes came in, | puffing on a stump of cigar.

Capt. Henry Stephenson, the man who told his Nazi captors he'd smoke his own cigars in preference to theirs, looked over | the heads of the crowd and spotted his wife, He beamed, and his eyes misted. In a moment they were embracing and sdying hackneyed that sounded new and | meaningful the way they said them ; They shared grief, too. Their son, Lt. Cmdr. Richard D. Stevenson, was killed in his navy plane over Sicily July 10, 1943. nu w » THAT WAS a year and a day alter Capt. Stephenson, who celebrated his 69th birthday and 40th wedding anniversary yesterday, was torpedoed from his ship, the Grace liner Santa Rita. The New Rochelle, N. Y. skipper, veteran of 50 years’ seafaring, appeared in fine condition. Thirty pounds lighter “after German prison camp life which Stephenion | said “I could afford to lose it.” Life as a prisoner, he said, was 1g tough.” n ¥ " WHAT ABOUT those cigars he took aboard the Nazi submarine? “They didn't last long,” he said. “When they gave out I was off cigars.” The Nazis had offered

. him their stogies when he was

taken aboard their submarine. He refused. | He leaned back and took a big | haul on his cigar, “How do you like the smell of this one?” he | asked, { “Okay,” said a reporter. “Where'd you get it?” Stephenson ran a hand through his sparse white hair. “It's a | secret,” he said. “A naval secret.” “By the way,” Stephenson said, “cigarets were selling at 250 marks a hundred in Germany when I left.” » ” » A CHIPPER MAN in a tweed cap and merchant marine coat came in, He was Thomas Jogeph Mooney, of New Orleans, chief engineer on the 8. 8. Carlton Mooney said he roomed with Stephenson in prison camp and bunked with him on the Gripsholm, “In eamp,” he said, “Stephen- | son and I raced each other to see who could sleep the longest. ‘I won.”

JAPS REPORT B-29s ALOFT By UNITED PRESS Two Ameridan B.29 Superfor- | tresses, approaching from the di- | rection of Manchuria, penetrated |

the skies over the Korean city of |S

Shingishu and “crossed the north-

“ern and southern part of the Keijo |S

area during the forenoon (Japanese time) today,” the Tokyo do- | mestio radio reported. { |

EX-MINISTER CONVICTED NEWARK, N. J, Feb. 22 (U. PJ. ~Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper, for mer Lutheran minister, faced a! maximum jail sentence of two years

‘and a $10,000 fine today after being

found guilty of-conspiracy to inter fere with and obstruct the national defense of the United Statés,

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LT. COL. HAROLD WwW, SPOONER (left), former Indianapolis resident and now liaison officer for the India-China division of the air transport command at Miami army air field, receives the bronze star from Col. Cortlandt Johnson, commanding officer of the ATC'’s Caribbean division, ; The star was awarded at for. mal retreat ceremonies at Miami base for “Meritorious achievement in locating and expediting shipment of vitally needed AAF material.”

VETERAN AGENCIES MEET TOMORROW

New developments in the veterans’ rehabilitation programs will be dis cussed at a meeting of representa-

{agencies at 3:30 p. m, tomorrow at

the Indianapolis Council of Social!

| Agencies’ conference Lemke building.

room, 901

resentative of the social security agency, Chicago, will be discussion |leader. The meeting was called by {Murray Auerbach, chairman of the {health section of the Counéil of

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INTERNATIONAL C. C. RETURNING TO PARIS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UG. P.) — The International Chamber of Commeree plans to move its headquarters back to Paris shortly in order

to take an active part in post-war reconstruction of world trade. The U. 8. Chamber of Commerce announced this today in reporting that Philip D. Reed of New York

{City has been named chairman of {the American section of the inter- | ational body.

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WPA after the war unless congress provides money to finance plans for useful local public works’ projects, the U, 8. conference of mayors asserted today. : The conference ‘told the senate appropriations committee that unless it reinstates planning funds cut out of a pending bill by the

house, the measure will “have been ||

gutted and sabotaged.” The mayors’ views were presented by Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York, president of the conference, and Mayor C, D. Séully of Pittsburgh. President Roosevelt on Jan. 17 asked congress for $78,115,000 for | planning public. works, But the house cut the figure to $5,000,000, which the mayors report termed ‘a futile gesture.”

CARD PARTY SLATED \ Barbara Prietchie council No, 76, | Daughters of America, will sponsor a card party at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow at the hall,

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