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mid - American By DOUGLAS LARSEN B interest in NEA Stall Writer o «Mr. Brown. America| WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Out and to promote trade through the of 2803 prisoners of war who es-
of New Orleans. “One of the most important we can take to further trade relations between midAmerica and the South American countries is to tell them about mid-America, what we have to sell and where it can be bought,”
pe said. to Make Amends He added that South American government buying organizations, commercial houses, chambers of commerce and new. industries are all anxious to make contacts with businesses in .mid-America, but are hesitant as to the proper companies to contact. Mr, Brown toured.South Amerfea last year to survey trade possibilities and found the countries’ present buying is limited to their small capital. This capital, he said, could be increased with more buying of South’ American goods. He said it was eviaent during his “trip that England, France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland] *are making a big play” for these
caped from internment camps in the U. 8. during the war, only 18 of them—16 Germans and two Italians—are still at large, But the mystery surrounding the successful efforts of these fugitives to defy capture makes up one of the most in files of the FBI. The. whole story can now be told for the first time. Ro One of these escaped POWs could be your neighbor, your baker, your barber, your shoemaker, or perhaps even your minister. Most of the 18 men speak perfect English. There is evidence that some of them are living normal, law-abiding lives in ob-
themselves in big cities. Some, perhaps, have escaped to Mexico and South America and are living there. ’ - ” - i IT IS POSSIBLE, the experts say, that a few have forgotten their Nazi and are sold
markets. It is also possible that several . still hold their fanatical Naz Pays Tribute beliefs and singly or together are . right now planning acts of sabTo Ernie Pyle
TOKYO, Feb. 24 (UP)-—Brig. Gen. Paul B. Kelly today paid tribute to the memory of War Correspondent Ernie Pyle on the 4 _gecond - anniversary of the rechristeni of the theater here os name. {Europe. are in on the hunt. Mr. Pyle, who was killed on| Practically no trick of the game Ie Shima toward the close of che has been overlooked in trying to Pacific war, was “far from be- find these 18 men. ing just another newspaper cor-| The mail of the relatives of respondent,” Gen. Kelly said. “He the men in Germany and Italy wvered all our World War on has been intercepted in the hope two battle fronts—and I mean that the fugitives would try to fronts.” . {communicate with them, but to “He spent his time with the NO avail “a Gls In the foxholes where the going was toughest,” Gen. Kelly said, “and he wrote about them in such a way he endeared himself equally ‘to the people back home and the GIs themselves. He
In addition to the FBI and the U. 8. Army still actively trying to find these fugitives, the police of Canada, Mexico and the countries of South Americg and
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Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker: Against the backgromnd of an FBI poster, the faces above belong to six of the 18 prisoners of war who escaped from internment camps in the U. 8. and are still at large. By now they could be your neighbor, your butcher, your baker. . This dispatch is the first of three which tells, for the first time, their exclusive story. If you recognize or have information about any of them, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover asks that you get in touch with the nearest FBI Office~—~or him-— at ONee; » A a AL AR pa BO ba ew
{On Congressmen
Old New Dealers
Cool to Truman By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 24—The Americans for Democratic Action organization has decided it has a bétter chance for a suitable overhaul on Congress than for a new
THE INTENSE man-hunt has|All he took with him were a few
even led investigators into the church. One of the uncaptured 18, Reinhold Pabel, was a former {theology student. It was believed {he might try to find a perfect hiding place in some out-of-the-
toilet articles. . . J ONLY ONE of. the 18 is believed to have had a criminal record from civilian life. He is Charly King, a name believed to
on the democratic way of life. |
0 st the U. 8. for sheer|2 fair complexion. Stage von See] The ont
way parish or in some cloistered theology school. As far as the records reveal,
average individuals. | The two Italians,
(Salvatore Cassarina, a baker
both escaped from Camp Shanks
{in New York. There is little about their personality to distinguish them from any other American of Italian jorigin. | * = =» GEORG GAERTNER is typical {of the Germans at large. He is described as five feet and 11 /inchs tall, weighing 171 pounds, {with blue eyes, brown hair and
y distinguishing marks |are a scar on his left index finger land a dimpled chin. He is now {28 years old. He had a high school education in Germany, speaks fluent English and was a SUccensrel draftsman in civilian e. At the POW camp in Deming, N. M., where he was held, he was a model prisoner, apparently satisfied with life, and did drafting for the camp officials. Sept. 21, 1945, at night, he crawled under {the fence and could have walked (oft the earth as far as anybody has since been able to discover.
Steers, Heifers Uneven:
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most of the 18 men are young,
scure small towns or have lost/Carosi, a barber by trade, and
be an alias for Curt Richard Westphal. ' He had a grade school education, is now 27 yeéars old and was
fairly well proved that he was once arrested in Cristobal, Canal Zone, on Dec. 26, 1936; for rifling mail boxes. He escaped from a camp In Bastrop, La., Aug. 18, 1945, The youngest of the group is Harry Girth, today only 22 years old. Very little is know about him except that he was born in | Breslau, Germany, is six feet tall, |weighs 183 pounds, has blond {hair, blue eyes and a fair com- | plexion. Nv | He escaped from Ft. Dix, N. J. At the time of his escape, June 15, 1946, he spoke good Englizh with only a slight accent. The reasons why only two Italfan POWs remain free while 16 |Germans are still loose, says the FBI, is that the Germans were more resourceful and more adaptable to assuming American identity and culture. Most of the Halians who es|caped were caught trying to contact relatives in the U. 8. A much greater percentage of Italian prisoners had American relatives than did the Germans.
(Next: The Nazi who decided to ses America first.)
Butler Educator
liberal paint job on the White House,
It will spend its main energy in electing Senators and Representatives and give little help to Mr. Truman unless he mends his ways, For the old New Deal liberals {this represents a new approach. For years it has been the thing {to cuff Congress about at will and
a truck driver and a sailor. It is|pin all the posies on a strong from the current dispute.
|executive. But now comes an apparent shift of emphasis—an acknowledgment that those oftderided men on Capitol Hill may be worth courting after all.
Pressing Duty
“Prospects for progress rise or fall with the composition of the next Congress,” the new ADA political platform says. pressing duty of the ADA in the coming campaign is to fight for nomination and election of lib‘eral congressional candidates. The ADA decided it would withhold any indorsement of a candidate until after the nominating
basis of records and party platforms. The Democrats were told to go out in the meantime and work for a program favoring the Marshall Plan and civil rights, combatting inflation, making effective the United Nations Palestine decision and nominating liberal candidates. What the Democrats do about getting a “liberal” vice presidential candidate may be especially important,
More Democrats
All this laying-down-the-law to the Democrats doesn’t mean the
ans will get ADA support. Yet so lukewarm on Mr. Tru-
To Head Omaha U. resenting the non-Communist left sweeping across the South
tion, FBI Files
Truman Policy Brings Split in
Civil Rights Progra: Widens ‘Rebel’ Move By LYLE C. WILSON United Press SIaff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb 24 Southern anger at President Truman’s civil rights program
Ti to Teachers— ee - Fire Chief ‘Sugar Coats’ Lecture With Candy Bars = -
LEBANON, Feb. 24—Fire Chief Robert Laflin here is finding that a pile of candy bars in front of him and & quiz program can do. mare. to instil youngsters. with. ideas of safety. than anything...
‘Chief Laflin made this discovery unexpectedly when as county parent-teacher association safety chairman he was called upon {0 entertain the children of mem-| . bers while their parents con- questions correctly got a candy ducted a meeting. They asked bar. 3 him if he could enterfain the
He covered fire and traffic safl children with a safety program. ly hazards and those in the school
Mr. Lafiin knew that to keep &' oy 0 He asked the children group of 25 youngsters quiet for how they should conduct thems
brought’ the first formal crack in the Democratic “solid South” today and there were threats of more to come, The most ominous warning came from the delegation of southern governors who tried— and failed--yesterday to force the Democratic high command to back down on administration
_ |anti-discrimination proposals.
“The. present leadership of the Democratic party.” the governors said in a fighting statement, “will soon realize that the South is no {longer in the bag.” Thurmond Heads Group
South Carolina, who headed the delegation, said they would propose an early conference of all southern governors to discuss the most effective means of “resist. ing” the civil rights program. - Perhaps as a prelude of things {to come, the Democratic committee of Jasper County, South
tional party' and called on the entire South to go along. It was the first formal break to result
H. Klugh Purdy, county Democratic leader, absolved Mr. Tru-
{man of responsibility of the civil
rights issue. Flays “Spineless Leaders” “He is compelled to get the Negro vote in the North this year lor lose the election. He has been {forced into this by spineless lead-
“The most ers who lay aside all honor in
any political campaign.” {- Chairman J. Howard McGrath lof the Democratic National Com-
ernors for 90 minutes yesterday. Although he turned down their request for help in winning con-
convention, and then only on the cessions from the President, Mr. |
McGrath said he believed the conference was a good thing and a {step toward restoring party harmony. wid But the governors blasted his harmony I ypes. Shortly after the meeting, they issued their state{nent of warning that the South {was “aroused” and would soon {translate its feelings into action.
'S. Carolina ‘Rebels’
| ‘Await New Moves RIDGELAND, (UP) = “Former” this smallest South Carolina coun-
likes Republicans. Far|ty watched anxiously today to see more Democrats than Republic-|if their withdrawal from the na-
tional Democratic - Party would prove to be the spark that would send a rebellious political flame
| More than 2000 Jasper Countians sent up rebel yells of .ap-
such as proval here last night as the
|county Democratic executive com{mittee voted unanimously to pull {out of the national party in pro-
Leon Henderson, Roosevelt test against President Truman's
..Gov.. J. Strom. Thurmond of] _ _
Carolina, formally quit the na-|
mittee met with the southern gov-
an hour the program had to be selves during a school fire erainng, Ke Maly con ak ss bet a ! i etting o tacted a merchant and asked him S10 UE CF it ongue twists (to. donate some candy for the arg” and puszies for good mieass |occasion. | ure. Sitting at a desk with the, At the end of the program he candy bars piled in front of him, found he had asked 100 questions Chief Laflin proceeded to conduct and passed out 72 candy bars. {a safety quiz on what the chil-! The children went home and told {dren had learned at home and in their parents what a good time {school. Those answering the they had.
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