Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1949 — Page 10

>all It Treason

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to find the answer. The Tiger, a German Com

CHAPTER THREE

right in his pack instead of dropping it in the tube.

this unorthodox operation-—and partly because he's Russian.” * The colonel went on, “I don’t wearin : know whether he is a Communist] like the Tiger. ¥ doubt whether he| himself knows, He can't speak German, which is all to the good; he'd be sure to make some blunder if he did.” Old Paluka, with his square flit Slavic face, his iron-gray Bair, oo captain of the team. his wide smile of gold, his booming laughter, his quick - footed strength! When he winked, he winked with both eyes. He was no taller than the Tiger, but he weighed 50 pounds more., Many times he had risked his life for] the Team, but no one ever heard him say why. He had probably

or discontent or stupidity,

the Gestapo. The colonel,

and the Tiger didn't get off badly,” the colonel

himself, He never asked for extra pay. ‘He never spoke against the Germans, or against the Communists in his own country. The only! explanation is that Paluka risked his neck simply for the love of danger. The other Joes wanted the. war to end for one reason or another—revenge or reunion or just the aching for quiet—but.Paluka hoped it would last forever, as long as there was a mission for him,

for the sixteenth. That will

A-28" This Is the way son joined. One night,

. or a |flector to throw WHEN THE TEAM opened S7aVel Path shop in Algiggh it put If to AFHQ | 1¢ DUD Was for French-speaking radio operators... General Giraud released

powerful

path was dark. But this night there was

try reservist.” Rerhaps he was glad to get rid so unorthodox | a soldier. Paluka became the first French Joe. He made three jumps from Algiers into France with his radio on his chest, On one of them he} got himself. a job with his old|®®

“electric shop in Marseille, no ques- COTner. A voice was

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FONE What makes a German betray his country? It is {left pouch * _ the business of the Ameridan army on the west side of the Rhine page one, \ munist, is greedy Maurer, for money. His hide-out at Number 27 Warf Street in Mannheim Mason. The dogtag around his is a good bunker for hiding American secret. agents. The colonel neck was the thoaks Pe will make an excellent spy. Now go ou with the story—

h “I am send Paluka,” he explained, “partly because he's our best; and most seasoned operator—and I'm beginning to have hopes for | meer said.

Joes had told different ore io get breakfast then. sheepishly, had warned the Tiger] not to speak of his communism; Pete warned Paluka that the Tig-|

The Tiger was s0 sure, of his, own agility, and Paluka so indifferent to danger, that the mating went off as well as could be wrapped in waxed paper on the hoped, for two such different Joes. toot locker against the wall, for| LJ

pronounced | long since forgotten the: reason cior the rite. He looked at the! almanac. “Lay the operation on| be! quarter moon. Lay it on in the

the doctor's

week after the Tiger had been signed, two MP's were making the rounds outside the brick wall of the Sarrebourg| cage. High up on the wall at each)

corner w fastened a big re- > light on the 5 the duty officer shook him and

in both directions. turned him over to the reception enough center. so that usually no part af any

which means

regular German

im. “At ease, Maurer,” the duty

I “Reveille is at five, and you'll Why must (people walk in on me in the middie of the night? Now I'll have [to rout somebody out of the bar{racks to find you a blanket roll” ‘But when he looked at the boy again he changed his mind.

{the guard detail to eat when they

~ “THE MARRIAGE of Palukaire) “like it.

80 “Help yourself.”

He did not look while the boy He turned {his swivel chair around to the desk and riffled through the Soldbuch. At last the boy stopped eating The lieutenant turned around. “You might as well sleep here on the floor, If you want to, till reveille.” “Thank you, sir.”

late the sandwiches.

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WHEN THE BUGLE BLEW at

At this first screening of PWs lone man of the Team always sat no/in with the officer of the day, to

Paluka with the grade of infan-|| CO A cotton-wool mist swal-|#ave time later cn. This day. was: Towed the light only 20 yards each Fred's rotation. {side of the big corner lamps, and gave them his name again; the centers of the path were as |dark as if there had been no At “name of parents |lamps at all, That is why they Poral began to talk. {heard him before they saw him, they neared the southeast singing

ljeutenant wrote it on the muster.

He was only 19 now. all German boys, he ‘given a draft number

There were some sandwiches

Corporal Maurer the

,” the cor-

tions asked, which entitled him to_a’ German passport as a for- - eign worker. The night the Kom~mandantur issued it to him he

nhead of them, in English. It was a few minutes before mdnight of January 15, 1945, The first MP sidled warily along the damp brick wall till

Corps. But because of the training {he had picked up in his father’s {elinic, they let him volunteer in tAtr Force Replacement, instead of

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Miss Penrod, dean of girls; Mrs, Guyer, Mrs,

pocket, According to] “IF THE KID knows his stufr,/ Christmas homecoming dance Fri-| his name was Karl why don’t they put him to work day from 9 p.m. to midnight in Charles in the dispensary?” the leuten- the gymnasium. {ant suggested “The T/5 has been

transferred,

{punched in.the middle, so that if for the sick ones, and show up President; R. L. Miller, second vice % \ | {a-man_were killed one half could the ones who pretend to be sick.’ President; Mrs, Eleanor Guyer, THE COLONEL decided to give the Tiger a Joe named Paluka yp, proken off and sent home, as radio operator, and to have him carry the crystal walkie-talkie |while the. other was buried with yigred to the cadre, which mearit treasurer, : !

Bo: Corporal Maurer was

he got PX rations like the trus- in

ties. '

preceded. him. Instruments and| [their shelves, and there were no| {more empty or corkless jars, mis-| {placed needles, or dirty dressings.

First Lieutenant Brophy, MC,|

|was glad to have a Gersan weed out the fakes and stand: by at, the real ~ases-—-almost as good {as an interne, besides being an Interpreter for him.

One afternoon at the end of the clinie, when the corporal had {been working a fortnight, he saluted First Lieutenant Brophy las usual before locking up and sala, “If I can help end the war {by going "hack into Germany,| {Herr Lieutenant,” he bent his |head to the east, “I should not {be afraid. Please do not take {this lightly. f have thought about {it hard, ever since I came to your |dispensary. You-are the only one I know how to approach.” | (To Be Continued)

Travis Tyree Dies 0f Auto Injuries

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Mounts to 44 | The death oi Travis Tyree, 42-year-old Diamond Chain machinist, today in General Hos-

At 17, ke pital brought the toll of Indian-

had been 556145 traffic deaths in 1949 to 44. and called,

to serve his year In the Labor

Mr. Tyree, 633 E. 17th St., was struck late Saturday night by a car at the intersection of Sutherland- and College Aves. John Zimmerman, 22, West Lafayette, driver 6f the vehicle, was not

| Officers of the association are and Doe Brophy Dr. Thomas . Esmon, president; loval “of zine with three sl6ts needs a man. He could interpret Miss Blanche Penrod, first vice

{secretary, and Walter Wegehoft,

, {ble Robinso He kept the stockroom cleaneriMrs, Beth’ Kissling ,Glenn Ha, - ies | “You're hungry, I expect,” the than the American T/5 who had Stanley Schmidt, Tom Jones where one Joe had disobeyed the officer added. : ' other, or where, from either malice | He nodded again. “Very, sir|bottles were always ready on the

__ pushed out a folding rubber boat, sculled to an’ American submarine “waiting offshore, and steamed o “Algiers with the little rt in his waterproof

a few paces behind. ~“Hande That ap “Hey,

is German for

Bill, come

boy's

‘the lam Tiger as a soldier, for “Tin Germany did not travel with Russian laborers. So Documents fitted him out with ord

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: boy's hands were al! Tony He Was stundieg it, 0/1 the 88th Flak Battalion at pri we He om either as medical supply cor-1s, Wilma, 11 and Pamela, 3, and e paths. He wore the long| blue-gray coat of the German Air Force with the medical brassard| nn his left sleeve, a red cross on

- ~ » { THEY WALKED him silently,| —only 20 kilometers from with one gun at his back and the Sarrebourg cage where he sther facing him, the hundred telling yards to the gate house where the| duty officer sat in front of the|before Seventh Army tanks surstove. Before he asked any ques-| tions the officer told him in Ger-|off. man to lean with his forehead against the wall and his toes back friendly cellar, living on the ifon of the white line chalked on the ration in his knapsack and the floor. In this position a prisoner little his protectors could spare was helpless, He could not draw (nim. a gun, or even a stringer, with-

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|forces, replacement and combat

digging ditches. Each branch of held the Wehrmacht had two equal

Replacement inducted and trained!

‘ITyree moved to Indlanapolls 127 {years ago. For the last six years.

{he had been employed as a ma-

{Maurer his goglag and sent him nist for Diamond Chain, Inc.|

— {toa _six-month—eadet school at/,, the university to learn first ald

ral. With the los: of Cassino what | remained of the unit merged with {Flak Battalion 852, of the 9th {Flak Division. The corporal was {shipped to Pfalzburg in Lorraine the “Was his story. They had not been there a week

rounded the position and cut them

“Finally there was no more to leat,” the boy said, “so last night

The MP's frisked him more I was forced to surrender. That garfield Baptist Church. thoroughly, but he had nothing on was not ‘owardly. Please to In-/yj pe jn New Crown Cemetery. {him except the Soldbuch in his scribe me as a prisoner of war.” ye was 36.

and pharmacy. They assigned him|

For three weeks he hid In a

was a member of Calvary. (Tabernacle Church. ER { He leaves his wife, Ann; four children, Martha Rose, 17, Jimmy,

three sisters, Mrs. Jessie Lark, |St. Louis, and Mrs. Thelma Berry {and Mrs. Marie Cruse, Red River, | The Rev. A. C. Brooks, pastor iof the Third Christian Church, will officfatesin services at 3p. m. | Thursday. in the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes. Burial will ibe in Washington Park.

William L. Bundles

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| Rites for William Lawrence Bundles, lifelong Indianapolis | resident who died Saturday in his home, 1517 8. Oxford St., will be 'held at 1 p. m. tomorrow in the Burial

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