Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1946 — Page 4

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where between 250 and 400 convicts | officials are seeking to arrange thefr still in the French Guiana camps is| return as soon as possible.Copyright, 1946, by The Indianapolis Ti

Lt. Col. Xavier Sainz—who, dur~

{Germans for a time, before escap{ing in 1941 to fight with the French lin North Africa—has been sent out |

here to help close out the peniten-

of 3,000,000 francs ($25,200) has | been appropriated by France for the prisoner repatriation. Few Ships Reach Port

However, even if the money Is |

rently needs all it can get—shipping space is: another question. It isn’t

A small vessel, usually from Mar | tinique, on an approximate once a|

transport the port of Cayenne sees these days. There is also the question of an|’ estimated 2000 prisoners who have ‘served their sentences and who now are forced by circumstances to remain in

ence as they can. : Most of them, who retain even a’ flickering hope of séeing France again, are wondering if they, as a class, will come under the repatriation scheme.

Liberes Have Little Money

30,000 francs ($250) necessary for the fare home represents an impossible, undreamed of sum. In the penal camps, prisoners are

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1best workers get a little more than| one cent a day, next best get a £

cent, and the least productive work« ers, nothing. ?

cently after having served 13 years. On his release, penitentiary service officials reported, he was given the total of 1200 francs ($10.08) which he had earned. More abstract is the question of | just how far you can “repatriate”| a man who has been burned to a vacant-eyed, shambling hulk under brutal discipline and man-killing labors in hot, unhealthy jungle and river camps, That is what has

happened to many of the French-|.

men deported here,

French officials aren't inclined to

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mented. “The way France is today, they'll eat better if they stay in| | Guiana.” { | A majority Bf prisoners are hav-| ing their sentences canceled in the) French move to wipe out the penal colony, Lt. Col. Sainz explained. | But the penitentiary service still is making strenuous efforts to get

lion-to-one escape gamble through : jungles and rivers and shark-filled seas to freedom, ! Two of them recently slipped off from the 8t. Laurent camp on the!’

LOCAL HOMECOMING GIS IN NEW YORK

The following Indianapolis soldiers have arrived in the New York port of embarkation for processing at Camp Atterbury. tp Aboard the Adabelle Lykes, next | Monday: Sgt. Frederick J Maier | "Aboard the Wooster Victory, yes'terday: S. Sgt. Alonzo W, Dunn. Aboard the Madawasca Victory, yesterday: Pvt; ‘Marion C. Perry, |: Pfc. Harry W, Bertram and Sgt. | | Edward E. Stephenson, { | Aboard the Hampton Sidney! Victory, last Monday: T. 4th Gr. | Wayne H. Van Osdol, T. 4th Gr | Wendells Northern and Pfc, Ralph

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Repatriation of Freed Prisoners at Devil's Island Proves To Be Puzzling for New French Official.

By JOHN A _THALE Times Foreign Correspondent DEVIL'S ISLAND, French Guiana, April 3.—Prisoners still are be-| |g deported to .the infamous French Guiana penal camps, despite France's announcement that they will be closed out as rapidly as possible. This is just one of the unavoidable jokers in the plan to free and repatriate the deportees whose blood and agony stained French -history. | Prison officials here have confirmed that convicts are being brought to the mainland prison camps from|™ il ts of Martinique and wild fastness of the border between | Guadeloupe. None have been de-|French and Dutch Guiana. They| Bi) | ported from France since before the got as far as Trinidad, some 800 miles away, before they were interLocal penal officials still are hazy | cepted.

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BOYS OPEN ‘POUND’ WAGON; 3 ARE HELD

| Three North side teen-agers who {liberated the “inmates” of a city | dog pound wagon at 22d st. and | Central ave, yesterday were held by { Juvenile aid authorities. i | The youths were nabbed in the [ immediate ‘neighborhood after they {had thrown open the dog truck | doors, . freeing four tail-wagging pooches. Dogcatcher Clarence Lis- | by identified the “liberators.” | Policewoman Marie Berry asked ithe boys if they weré aware one {of the hounds had been condemned as vicious. They said he must not have been too vicious, because they lifted the dog in question out of the truck in their arms. “Why did you do it?" asked Mrs. Berry. : the

MUNCIE, Ind. April 3 (U. P).— A family doctor who once visited patients in a horse and buggy flies 2100 miles today to call on a’sick friend. Dr. John 8. Coffman, 84, leaves Indianapolis by plane this afternoon for San Francisco, Cal. There, he expects to lend professional and moral support to a fellow member of the Muncie Moose lodge who has a broken leg. “It doesn’t seem to mend right,” Dr. Coffman said. “So I'm going out to have a look at him. He called me long distance, sald he was in trouble.” Dr. Coffman is a sprightly physician who doesn't look his age and

The 15-year-old leader of lads replied: - “Because we

was a_ pretty good reason,

ELECTRIC TRAINS PLANNED WASHINGTON—AIl main railroad lines in Norway will be electrified within 15 years, Norwegian officials state.

love whose friends say he'll live to be Mrs. Berry admitted that|100. He has practiced medicine for

54 years, the last 46 years in Muncle. In his early days, he visited i patients around , Muncie with a horse and buggy. Dr. Coffman declined to identify his patient. “Professional ethics, you know,”

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he said. “He's just an old friend, a fellow member of my lodge, and he isn't satisfied out there.” Dr. Coffman said he would go to Arizona for a short vacation when he was eertain his patient was getting along all right. “I intend to have lots of fun, too,” he said.

END 40-DAY STRIKE RUSHVILLE, Ind, April 3 w,| P).—Approximately 400 employees of two plants of the International Furniture Co, were scheduled today to return to their Teguiat) shifts, ending their 40-day-old!

strike.

Members of the Upholsterers’ In-|

ternational Union (A. F. of L.)

_ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1946

POLICE SHOOT BULL

“AFTER LONG CHASE

A large bull, destined for local meat markets, put off the inevitable for several hours yesterday when he leaped over two gates at the Capitol Packing Co., 801 Kentucky ave., and wandered over southwest Indianap-

olis befare being felled by police :

bullets. . Four squad cars and the police emergency squad were sent out to corral the bull and handle the large crowd of spectators that followed the animal which was finally core nered near the W. Morris st. overhead of the Illinois-Central railroad elevation. . In on the kill were Sgt. James Langford, armed with a shotgun, and Patrolmen George Kahl and Edward Clark, each armed with revolvers. The carcass was recovered by the packing company.

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