Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1950 — Page 26

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Treason .............. By George Howe

“Happy, vy & young German soldier “whe, for ideal- |Force is the Herr Tourist Cortio ress ha akreed 10 WY for the American Army, can no | paraa®» Ernst asied softly. stio rt sk spot-checks. His name appedrs on the lastest Black. | Te. tha Rist. The quartermaster sergeant, who has.given Happy. Wt, | pup epceant frowned. He. , delivering the damaging Blacklist to various towns. He per- {would bé the first to admit that ~“suades Happy to deliver a copy to Heilbronn for Mim. Now. £0 [,np must be vigilant, but it was » with the stery— | not necessary to be cantankerous. CHAPTER SIXTEEN tr Noha Hom) Without being asked for his Bold- #= HAPPY CROSSED the four-lane. bridge over the Neckar, from pych, Happy la on i opt ele? town to the modern. The city was crowded with party | counter. Corporal Ernst pounced members and officials who had fled across the Rhine, on bicycles on it. He studied it page by page. and in carts, béfore the American Seventh Army, He had no trouble «ypne Tourist Corporal is in the| ‘finding the station. When he drew near it -he saw .a big banner yedical Corps, and yet he -ap-|-an he clock tower of the post office: HEILBRONN STEHT. pears to be carrying a rifle.” stands firm, i ee C1 renews Trost rifled through the book.to $ . tain regiment, as If the Luftwaffe iy . «Happy pushed open ihe swing: were not good enough for him. Page i But 3 20 Bet: set Toad ing doors of the blackou re Shall we offer him a special lim-|this rifle was he Wohraeht] bule. A round counter in the mid-| i ." 0. attach. Marshal Gor. any officer o e . dle of the waiting room encircled — tr See, there is no entry on the the. Tr tis ing’s ivory car to the troop train ” $Wo -noncoms of the. Trangporta- ,,., taking his comrades to Pag8% tion Corps. Théy answered ques- =", | Laying the Soldbuch face down, | tions and stamped travel orders| AARP (he fished in a pigeonhole under ‘under the FRONTLEITSTELLE| ‘ny go yiy ‘(he travel order the counter and brought out his sign. Happy spotted Cpl. Ernst, 10.0 the linoleum coun- COPY of the Blacklist. It was at.a glance—"the sour-faced one “the green, like the one at Ulm. Tt 5 ter, turning back to stamp the Why Behrend had sald—and smiled to, oon of "y newcomer, Happy Was last week's. He turned to

f. pped y s/the 8 page. but he.did not find A hundred soldiers and reserve RP ce ths colonel beside, Steinberg on the list “of -the Ists sat on benches beside a long, "yr ont of the sergeant, | hunted, . row of trestle tables, or slept, “Oh, leave the kid alone,” and The sergeant whispered across, huditled against the walls. leven to Ernst the sergeant’s voice = Wouldst thou make him a better The Rhine was 50 miles away... yinqiy “He's going back to Soldier if thou sent him to the but Happy felt the enemy's dle the front, isn't he? Look, he's front without a rifle, for the sake tant. pressure in the Huw nitven got a kind word from Col- of the book } * haste of ‘the Strength through! ., po. er lsn't that enough It 1s last week's list. That Joy helpers at the canteen, in the| you? Behrend, our mail orderly, should pitying soft-eyed Kindlinenss of the He turned.’ back io Happy. have brought the new one this sergeant at the desk, ane, Set gazing myopically at the colonels afternoon, but nobody is on tme 1 ihe Julien impatience oot signature through rimless spec- Any more. a . tacles, » Who lined up shane the Dunter} “You can go on the train with. NOT BECAUSE this exchange| asked no questions, ap Y the others tonight, Corporal, if had been overheard, but just be-| dared not hear, or. the. BHRGHS vou want. Tl fix it up. You are cause Happy had stood so long| utter, what the Rewer ol gh on luck, because we haven't got at the counter, a small crowd beThey heid out. their ave Raper: train through in the last week, gan to gather. The knot of sol-] the. Dongoibs stamped ee Fieg ADA I don't know when we can diers looked dully at each of the, Vente: Weltargeleltet. Forwsr ‘again. Pay no attention to this noncoms in turn as he spoke.| Heltbron, oA Fil 45. |Halunke,. He's sore because he's Suspicion flickered in their eyes, | - [going to the front himself. Just reflecting Corporal Ernst's sus-| ; IAPR hud outipleied His mi give. me a minute to think it out.” picion. ¢ ple to find the divisions as walk-| * x = . When the new book comes, “el ing down to the corner to look, HE PICKED up one of the shall see,” Ernst, muttered, but|-

{ lits in the hearing of the others. diers In the waiting room knew reversed lettering. He pounded it 11s | . where the By on were: On the travel order after Ernst's - Nobody is himself at such| many belonged to 9th Flak or Forwarded” and slid it-back to times, Corporal” the sergeant] 25th Infantry themselves, Given Happy. The stamp read “By ex- smiled to excuse his colleague, | FRETS Bape (oman.

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Len es “casual in uniform could have Weé nave got together “enough 2: - found _ itor auld. haved stock and fuel on the same’ He closed the Soldbuch and re-| Without seeming to watch, [night that the line is clear. Even turngd it to Happy. The crowd Happy walted for a break in the(so, the train doesn't go right to dissolved returning to thé lineup around the booth, for athe Rhine, but only as far as benches. Happy strolled to a moment when no one would be! Heidelberg. bench, unstrapped Ris rifle, and! near him to listen. When he saw “Beyond Heidelberg,” sald the fell asleep, with his head resting it was empty at last, he strolled sergeant, shaking his head and on the knapsack which contained across from his bench. He lald speaking low so that Ernst could the stolen Blacklist. down 'his trip ticket, stamped not hear, “the tracks are kaput. =» falsely at Bregenz for four days’| Yankee bombers, you know.” WHEN HE WOKE, the blackleave and endorsed truly at Mem-| At Heidelberg the cliffs of the out curtains were drawn. The, mingen and Ulm and Aalen. Cor. [Odenwald suddenly drop to the train was in. The men, in columns poral Ernst, a stocky man with flat river plain which stretches of twos, were marching to the thin lips and glacier-blue eyes, On fifteen kilometers to Mann-/platform. The troops did not, stamped it once more, automat. helm and the Rhine itself. There break rank to enter, but climbed! feally. Then he looked at the Pas no cover whatsoever on the in pair by pair, each man laying| paper more closely, almost In- plain. It would take the train all his gedr on the slats and helping | ly. inight to get even as far as himself up by gripping the door- | ~“Look, Sergeant,” he called ‘to Heidelberg, the sergeant con- jambs. Sometimes the young had! the other noncom, “here’s>an avi- fided, because it stopped to pick to help the old. { ator who is on leave. Do you not UP recruits from many stations There was no light inside the : an airman who takes Ob the way. car either. Happy found by touch leave? He has been absent from| “S50 you may as well hop on that three tiers of siat bunks! “W Dattery which might “have de-[the same train; Corporal. They) ‘were hinged to the wall andl fended the tracks, enjoying him- feed you breakfast in Heidelberg. that straw was spread on the! self in the Alps. Now he has de- and you can march into Mann- ficor, for those who found no cided to return via Mannheim, heim with them afterward.” room on the bunks. He jostled he has been skiing, | : » » .» : ~ |against someone as he reached! Moun HAPPY wanted to reach Mann- fora bunk:“the—other man was’ heim as fag gould, but not reaching for it, too, and py being” dhuignaied inte a [heard Mina sigh with Tati R| strange unit that might not let was the last empty bunk. i him go when he got’ there. “Bitte,” said Happy, releasing “But look; Sarge.” he broke in, it. and lay down In a corner of “I have two more days’ leave. the straw; straining his eyes to-| {1 don't have to report till day Ward the square of the still open| 16 Mier tomorrow. See? It says so door. And Corporal Ernst, as he) _ jon my trip ticket. I'd like to see lid the door shut, stared straight| |a little of the country. How about At him, and the moonlight came, stamping me to stop over in through the trusses full on his| Heidelberg? As far as sleep goes, face. Then someone dropped the) {I don't need much. Then I could 'hrowbolt. The men settled to take a hike through the woods Sleep In their clothes, just as they tomorrow and report in the next Were. jostling each other in the day, when I'm supposed to.” ark.

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} -. ji © The sergeant smiled indulgent-| Lo. TRAIN ‘started. It crept ly. “Well, I ont wd why: not. erkily .along ‘the bank of the 0 Ju dont turn the war into a ng.par, stopping at the towns! y ! . 8 cd I \ on the way, where Happy could 20 y v e pounded one more seal yp... i). reinforcements climbing| Corporal Ernst was listening; the yni0 the cars behind him ’ Siiies Were alone at the counter, g,meone started to hum “Die| TTT RI. 9371 [ELLIE Wacht am Rhein”: anot | hh “In what branch of the Airijt up and soon the oy ——— ” Ing to the roar of forty voices which drowned the swing and! pound of the wheels. : The chorus ended and the men “drifted off into their uncomfort-

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The curtain goes up on Polities-a-Poppin'-—the Indianapolis Press Club's. 1950 political song and! dance show--May 18 at the Murat | Theatre { The. Gridiron Show. which an-| nually lampoons city, county and! state figures, goes into rehearsal Shortly, I James A, Stuart.” president of the club, announced formation of | ah executive committee to bear the brunt in producing the fourth musical review stages by - the city’s newsmen. | & Charles G. Werner was ap-| pointed chairman of the show committee. He will be assisted by Herbert Elliott and J. Clayton | Hughes, ' | | Others named to head sub- | {committees for the annual affair] were: . | Walter Leckrone, Ruests: All | Lindop, programs; Maurice Gron-| endyke, invitations; John Jame. | son, script; Lowell Parker, ladies’! entertainment: -Catl Deortch, bud get; Heinle Moesch, production; Robert Hamilton," banquet ..and Paul Ross, publicity, .

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