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German jabber and a lot of small. arms fire outside.

“We peeked but, but had to duck

back when German soldiers spotted us, They pumped the shed full of |

holes and a slug caught. me be-|

hind the right ear. It's still there.” Others Get Away Meanwhile, others in the battery had gotten their trucks turned around and escaped, Al says. Among | those Who got away was Kenneth | Perry of 4643 8. Meridian st, who| took a last long look for signs of lite from the shed ahd concluded!

the “burp” guns had done their job. (*

Mr. Perry was one of those who had to wait until the war was pvt to learn that Al hadn't cashed

tured and finally had beaten Jans Hany

| GI Who Was Believed Dead To Greet 106th Buddies

| Al got pis discharge Nov. "18, 1945,

{got his old job back as manager of Hardware Oo, 1710 W Morris st.

2" when he's going to marry the girl who waited, Naomi Lasley of | Shannondale. “I could have had this bullet [taken out of my head,” he says | thoughtsully. “but that would have meant staying in the army another threé¢ or four months. I'd had {enough of the army, too much for that.”

his chips, but instead had been cap Jo A sen Jenner Accuses

of his “luckier” He was herded with at of other prisoners into another nearby house, later taken back to the Ger man lines dnd put to “work on » “butcher shop” erew burying Ger~ man dead. : Treated Preity Decently’ Germans showed a. variety of af-| titudes toward him, he said, but on the whole treated him “pretty | decently” up to tha’ time.

occasion, waiting for a street Jar"

in Hamburg. his gyards permitted civilians to spit on him and Insult him. But in another hospital a| German corporal shared “extra” bread and wine and blood sausage with him, “I still write back to that cor. poral and he writes to me,” the former sergeant sald, “From the eastern border, things got tough,” Al related, “You may have heard of the march from Poland. It was almost as much talked about in Europe #5 the Bataan death march was in the Pacific.” Gen. George 8. Patton's son-in-| law was another of thé men who sweated out that long march. The column finally wound up near a spot called Hammélberg, Hear Tanks Coming “One of the officers fixed up a shortwave set wé found In the ¢compound,” Al said. “Over that, one day in April, we heard Sherman tanks were headed our way. We getting our belongings {ogether and “sure ‘enough, within a few hours the old Shermans were rolling in to get us,’ rolling right over the barbed wire smashing the fences down.” “But our trouble wasn't over yet," he added sadly. “As we followed the tanks back to what we figured was liberation, we met: opposition. Some of the men formed a column and headed back to the camp under a white flag. About 40 of us stayed with the tanks and were with them when they bumped into a powerful column of German Tigers and armored infantry. “We scattered, but after a night in the underbrush, surrounded, I had to -give up, too, and surrendered. A German got me started back to the prison camp with others in the same fix, On the way back we passed the spot where the Shermans and the Tigers had tangled. It was a mess.” Dischagell in 145 Then followed a three-day ride to Nuernberg, jammed into boxcars, and a two-week ‘march to a town

Mooseberg.” The next time the 3d

Army Courts

‘Stacked’ Against. Soldiers, He Sdys

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two civilian defense attorneys. The memorandum expressed fear

semi-permanent. thorns in the side” of the army in the European theater “Denied Civil Rights’ Mr. Jenner wrote Mr, Patterson as follows: “Information comes to me from unimpeachable sources that enlisted men in the United Btates army, specifically in the Buropean theater, are: “ONE. Being denied their civil rights. “TWO: Being made the.victims of stacked courts. “THREE: They are not permitted to be Tepresented in the preparation of their defenses by attorneys of their own choice.” Senator Jenner, a wartime captain in the army air forces, said his charges involved Brig. Gen. Cornelius E. Ryan, assistant deputy military governor in Germany, and | Col. Francis H. Vanderwerker. Bigned by General The memorandum cited by | Benator Jenner. allegedly written hy Col. Vanderwerker and signed by Gen. Ryan, It was addressed to the chief of staff for the Buropean theater, “I have every reason to believe this is a true copy of the routing slip which reveals shocking conditions in prosecutions of eourtsmartial in tht - thester," Senator Jenner wrote. “Coming - in the wake of the farcical court-martial of Col. James A. Kilian, of Litchfield barracks fame, and others responsible for | the atrocities at that prison, these

charges should not be. permitted to lie dormant, “It my opinion, it is time that

army brass realize that an enlisted man, who wears the uniform of his | country, is. also a human being and entitled to the full protection guaranteed every citizen under our constitution.”

Got Wide Publicity The Ryan-Vanderwerker memoranduri, dated Oct, 26, 1046, said Earl J. Carroll and. Thomas L. Polev: former grmy ~offfcers and both Califormta attorneys, were ex-

army moved in, it was for keeps.

pected in Europe to serve as de

almost a year to the day from the | 4 [time ‘he landed at Liverpool - and 3 {headed for the fight. Today he's hardware and appliances at the Bertram

He lives with his folks| lat 1237 Lee st. “but only until Aug.

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Meridian Lodge | Installs Officers

J. B. Kays Paul M. Rinker 18 Kays, 400 N. aloo at. wil

to be installed will be Carl Cook, right supporter of the noble sand; John Mathis, left supporter of

waiting trial. Jenner, both were attorneys in the Litchfield trials, The memorandum sald Mr. Carroll had received widespread pub- |

On one that the attorneys might become licity for his attacks on ammy Jus | tice and that it was understood | “similar pro-

that Mr. Foley had {pensities The two were: under | stood to be receiving $4000. a month {and expenses, the document said, | “It is probable, in view of their past eonduct, that Mr. Carroll and Mr. Foley will again use every device known to clever civilian criminal lawyers to prolong trials unnecessarily and to introduce large masses of evidence, which are ir relevant to the issues in the trial, most, seriously damaging to this copmand and the army,” it sald. ‘Senator Jenner said Mr, Carroll obtained a copy of the document

from Frankfurt, Germany, to Mr, | Foley in California. The senator also reported that Mr. Foley had written him that military Justice in Europe was “so abhorrent” that | he had returned to the United [Sa last December...

Mullen Renamed. As AF. of L Chief

Carl H. Mullen will begin his seventh term as president of the state federation of labor next Jan-

by an overwhelming majority over state labor commissioner Chatles Kern. Only the presidency of the ol. eration, statewide affiliate of the { A. P. of L., was contested. Renamed | without opposition were -secretary- | sroasures John Acker of Lafayette, { Mrs, Mary Garner of South Bend, | Stanley J. Elliott of Marion, John | O'Donnell of Hammond, Hobart Auterson of Terre Haute, Pat Hess of Ft. Wayne, Ray Creasey of In- { dianapolis and John Boucle of Evansville, all vice presidents. AGA KHAN REPORTED ILL LONDON, July 8 (U- P.).—~The | Losiach Star sald. today ‘that. Prince Ali Khan, son of the Aga | Khan: one of “the world's gichast | men, had reported “that his father | was seriously in in Geneva.

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advised veterans fdved with what they believe unwarramt«| CHICAGO, July 8. (U. P.)~— nounced

.jed increases to reject voluntary Sears Roebuck & Co. an boosts and take their chances on'today that sales for June and for

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These two sis and Shi ay hi school students. will. 4ttend Cincinnati college of music next fall on scholarships won by their

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vocal ability. Joan won her. scholarship last year and it was renewed for next. Her sister received her scholarship upon graduation this year, Both were members of the Speedway high ° school choir,

the first five months of the fiscal year were the highest on record for any comparable periods: he. firm said seles during June reached $126548,100, up $34,907,579 over June, 1946. Sales ee $762,024, 470 from Feb, 1 to June 30 were 25.7 per cent above the comparable five-month, of 1046.

Recalls Group fo Duty Following ~~ aa Request by Governor Gates Ce

Mayor Tyndall today had reactivated Bis wartime fair fent

The mayor rpcalled the group to duty following a. request by ,| Governdr Oates that mayors of cities in Indiana's 28 defense areas set the new federal rent control law.

one| Apartment Owners’ association, and * and [Charles B. Forrest, president Emil in. |C. Rassmann, Mec. : Governor Oates said he will turn Members of Committee over all local board recommenda. Members of the Jndidnapilie ove to, tne figtions! hung exgroup are: KV. Ammerman, | pediter for approval. Ripple high school principal, chairman; Herman C. Wolf There's No Doubt Here: regional director of the United Saucers Really Fly Steel Workers (C. I. O:); Mrs. PF. PITTSBUROH, fuiv 8 Ul. 3s Connie Dunbar told Judge Harry ptader. 3, If Sonnle DInba oid Judas Bar was no mystery about the ucers - in his home—they

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