Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1949 — Page 7
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Synopsis:- The Seventh American Army has found its “Christ- |eyes that his outburst was just/traveling together, the Tiger to like” German traitor. Karl Maurer, known as “Happy,” hates [the normal funk before a Joe's see Paluka didn't skip, and Pa-| {luka to orderly the Tiger. Germany with the Communist known as the “Tiger,” apd the Happy sipped the whisky in both were, in th adventure-loving radio operator “Paluka.” Upon the information |silence, staring at the burning plausible. deve The Tiger ‘and Paluka were
Hitler and loves freedom. He will get his chance to jump into [first jump.
they send back nds the lives of thousands of American |twigs. : soldiers. Now go on with the story. ‘ i od CHAPTER FIVE EIGHTH AIR FORCE put up the Liberators, and sometimes the A-26 for the jump operations. Being so small ‘and fast—a' rooftop hopper—the A-26 was safer than a Liberator for a fast) climb after the’ drop. . ' There wasn't ‘a field anywhere near the Rhine undamaged
enough for ‘the take-off. 80 they used the field at Dijon, 120 miles back westward in France. tm i esate ste. ——
| rest now.” } | . They dragged their feet up the
two vars started from the Schloss to think that German cities are to the Golden Well to pick up the/bombed and that I shall guide
three Joes. Fred drove the little|the planes. My own family lives| "co 1. Nacht” he said, and:
Simea with Happy's operation|in Berlin.” funds and documents in his own, Pete patted his . shoulder.
‘they answered, “Gute Nacht.”
oors were all a barracks in the rumble. Pete/Pombs aren't aimed at civilians,|R3Ke sure the doors oh an-
drove the command car behind, [Just the same, we know how YOu| yor drink. with room for the Tiger and feel.” | “Do you think the kid seems
Paluka. | “Do you mind, sirs” asked| right?” Pete asked. “Hes
They parked by the practice! Happy shyly, “if 1 call you “thou.'ly,y hanhy, you know.” jump, aut of sight of the inn. a8 you call me when we speak,” .y.c I do. That kind of talk
The three Joes, still in fatigues, German, and do you mind if we gets you worried, but you have waited in the bar with Vati over/SPéak alittle German now? Iti to weigh the human factor, as the
untasted bowls of coffee, while|Will make me feel better.” {colonel says. In fact, I don't the others finished their nétsy| “Why, sure, kid, go ahead. pink ne would be as breakfast in the day - room|There’s nobody around. beyond. When the door opened| ‘I hope you won't forget,” they scrambled to their feet. Happy started in German, “that vati shook their hands. {I am a German soldier still. “Hals-und Beinbruch.” he whis- When the colonel asked me at the |, bout him. pered, so the others wouldn't Parracks whether we would win]
the tumult in the day room Know we won't. There are many |
dropped, as they say quiet comes German soldiers who think as I|
heads for the little doér. {Him. They won't pay much atten.| “They hoped that our freedom
tion in class this morning,” Vati| Would come from inside the coun-|
told Fred on the stoop. “rps (FY before she destruction spread| peg now. always this way the day of an|'0® far. R e peace will Sone 0 will stick.” : operation.” ius only when He is destroyed. « 8 =
two cars. |you do it from outside, as Ger“Just remember this” Fred|man *soldiers.”
[his feet, “let's turn in and think guerre grid,
ave to be a couple ‘of - r ——— | stone staircase and left Happy at bet\veen the two drops, to avol on Y ! - the. door of the room where the th eed of the! On’ the morning of y {Happy blurted. r . (fouling, and at the sp n g of the 14th/Happ) d. “I cannot bea | otha Joes wire sleeping. He xing Shar might land. them a ‘shook ‘hands with his schoolboy ameter apart. The Tiger agreed to meet Paluka at the crossroads in Oppin-| g in case they missed each] “ l ‘ : t back to belt and the uniform rolled into! ‘They'll be all right, kid. The Dcte and Fred went back 1foiner in the woods, for either of them might be delayed in burying his parachute and striptease.
hospital smart an Tiger had convalesced. The Tiger had: briefed Fred on] {of doubt, and I'd rather have him)
{agent unless he did have a touch
Happy's
e army, that was
“Well,” Pete yawned, getting to dropping at NO60945, nord de Met with National Labor Rela-| ghe was accuséd of failing to : : That is a clearing! tions Board representatives today report $587.80 she earned working “Th % ; lof something else. We're all get- 50 miles northeast of Mannheim, to set a date for an election by as a domestic while receiving « . o 4 ting stale. We'll go over it all in near the highway from Wurz- d ¢ IS d the morning just to make sure pyrg, -
h It. was. a small clearing, ! {nothing is forgotten, “but let's pt they were lucky to find any
. = PINPOINT east. He
carrying a sample ef blood for the field hospital Munich to the base hospital at
Bregenz, near the Swiss border, After the support we got from ‘ y ¥ o ® the the national organization last TIPPECANOE, Deg: 22—Kight|
| night, we're sure to win.” Today's meeting was expected determine the. form of the get it out of his system before|,, 5eq the description to Happy. ballot and other details, Including the jump than after. Don’t WOITY Mike had forged a letter of trans- assurance that the vote would be mittal from Munich to Bregenz, secret,
i “If the Tiger came out with sealed and stimped with the field hear, . But as they tiptoed out the war I tried-not to answer. Ig, (41x like that I'd scrub him hospital f
and Fred
Documents on my own, pegardiess of the printed the letterhead and seal [Qe i : colonel, but Happy Ww e all from captured samples. Sentries over - Death Row when a man 30; they tried twice to get rid of ,ion¢ He's got to be. all right. seldom prures ams official mail. {We'll be up the creek if he doesn’t hyt if one of them did he would bring back those two divisions on find the trip in order. schedule. Anyway, I'm going to Yes, I'm convinced he
So’ that le could break trail, |
another
order detaching him to his new [we cannot do it by ourselves in-| pHEY FELL asl hoping 136th Mountain, ar. | . ol ; : | CY FELL asleep, hoping for crossj, the Rhine westward at THE FIVE MEN piled into the (side the Reich, we should heID|ciear flying weather, because it Mann voy v's oc
for his name,
warned Happy. “From now on| “The man who left the bomb y. o50ration scrubbed, or flying was traveling as himself.
vou are Steinberg, and I'm going at His feet on the 20th of July,"|a gry run. Toto, the Joe Who to call you Maurer sometimes, Pete pointed out, “was a 00d ).4q hag eight, was so unnerved 2330 hours that night.
The take-off was
too, hoping you won't answer.” German soldier, a regular. I re- who. pe gid drop that ‘the dis- would have to be at the
It was three when they got to/member he was a colonel. Thou patcher had to push him through dressed. and ready for strapping
Station D, in a village halfway hast no cause to fear, it will not \4po pomp bay, Besides, when aon the chutes, at 2200.
between Langres and Dijoin. De as hard as it seems. Within} ump was laid over, they had to| Station D was a chateau 3002 Week thou wilt be back With|,e,ye the Joe's travel orders for! years old ‘and 300 feet long, a us {the new date. There was a lock-|
staging area where the Joes got| pyar ANT) Fred were worried ef at D full of blanks and birds
their last briefing before the take- |, ot the same, for that kind of|for just this purpose, but no
off and waited overnight if the operation itself was scrubbed. Many sorties had to be scrubbed | even after the take off, because of flak or weather, or because {the weather held the operation x r ed the other side, to kee the Filot “gia Shot vg Jp lo Jeached safe, but a usp would take off as scheduled that mane eight dry fuse before n like Happy's, stalking his treason, Night. They spent the morning finally jumped could, if it overtook the quarry, checking the boys cover stories. Pete's command car rolled in|fuin their whole racket. It was It wasn't a hard job, for they the gate just behind the Simca. POt unthinkable that it might had been well rehearsed at G. Phe gue yun ging . on, take him right to the Gestapo. |They entered the final dates with of the big car and Happy out of They walked back through the the mo¥able german date Szmp. the little one. Paluka turned|d00r: Fred ran ahead to switch Paluka was refurning to Manna cartwheel on the grass. Happy off the BBC. They sat down to- heim after leaving the breechstretched out his arms and Stther en the sofa. Pete threw|block of an 88 at the Kramag touched his toes to get rid of the another log on the fire. They underground repair shop in Wurzcramp from the long trip. poured Happy some whisky for burg. The Tiger was headed for “The American cars,” observed the Tiger, “are worse than an oxcart with square wheels. Now how about something to eat?”
vr » - AFTER SUPPER they tuned in the radio to BBC news. That day, BBC broadcast, the Russians had surrounded Breslau and 300 bombers had attacked & Berlin, When he heard that, 5
Happy jumped up from his arm- . hi No time to shop? while?” he whispered. 1 F Switch to
“Can we go outside for a little The team had got in the habit t R \
‘of whispering. Fred nudged Pete to come along. the choicest you can give ees OF serve!
\compunction is what they dread-| American, could forge the sim-
Joe for being afraid of the jump, 88 Mike could do it at G.
Pete opened the glass door, as.big as a shop window at home, and the drizzle swept right into the room. The three of them walked out on the broad stone stylobate of the chateau, to keep, off the slushy grass. Fred closed; _-the door. behind. them. _. “I couldn't listen to the radio,”
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' . A 4 4 7 sociation directors today voted all Awe srie Sneiudes : . Goes to Prison semi annual ‘dividend of 3 per ea LAUNOFY CICCTUON with Mother © [oont ber ‘annum on companyill sms draress | fo ————rm—— : shares for the last half of this CENTRAL BEAUTY clo AFL . hi PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22!/year, This marks the 64th consec- College, Ine. ’ Meet Wit | (UP)—Mrs. Lillian Gilyard, 38, utive year in which Arsenal has{jj 208 Odd Fallow Bid L1-9721 NLRB to Set Details mother of nine children, and her paid dividends. . seven-month-old son, are in 7 ys
Officials of CIO and AFL unions county prison today.
local laundry workers. Ordered by the NLRB, the elec-§3000 during a 2'4 year period. tion will allow workers in 42 In-|ghe said that she took.a part30. near the target. There would! dlanapolis laundries and cleaning time job to support-her children 'of seconds! Pants to choose the union they because the relief checks weren't] a Wish to represent them. i meeting today was pre- . = ceded by a mass meeting of C10, “NINE MONTHS in county {laundry workers last night in the prison,” ‘said Judge George G. | Amalgamated Hall, at which the Parry. national F strength behind the fight against/arating mothers from nursing three AFL unions here. Joseph Romer, state director)to prison with the mother. Her of the Retail, Wholesale and De-|Other eight children were put . |partment. Store -¥nion, CIO, pre- homes. Mrs. Gilyard fs estrange a dicted - eventual victory
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