Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1950 — Page 2

eat to Fight ‘80 Per Cent Too Young for Nazi Legions; Veterans Make Them Into Efficient Force

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has formed a new German Wehrmacht — the ~ Bereitschalten—another link in his chain of stooge armies. To get the inside, human story of this Communist Prussian der every flag. You know this nat the “Mad Butcher of Kings-

force Fred Sparks spoke to drdinary soldiers and officers, and

high Allied

officials. This is the fifth of a group of articles.) ® By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent . BERLIN, July 24—Eighty per cent of the troopers in the new Red Wehrmacht—currently preparing to

fight Joe Stalin's war—were too young to goose-step in Nazi legions... children of defeat. * Carefully planted among them are the 20 per cent who saw Awful Adolf’s pranzing panzers blasted into

. ghastly garbage on 20 foreign fronts.

The veterans have been

cautioned to button their lips about that time of disaster. War must always be portrayed as a romantic . industry, and terrible tales of retreat and rout are hardly calculated to inject the offensive spirit. (Recently, in Communist Germany, photos on the freezing flight from Moscow were with

Mr. Sparks drawn from newspaper files.)

Young as they are-thou-sands are under 18--1 assure you that Hitler's kiddies are taking to the life military as keenly as did brother and papa. The fortunate few who've seen the Bereltschaften maneuver tell me that-—at present speedup—it will soon be man-for-man the best army this European side of Russia... . éxcept for the British, When they are occasionally publicly exhibited-—and I've geen them strut through East Berlin—it 1s hard to believe the new force is only 11 months old.

- r ” THIS YEAR'S CROP of supermen clobber the cobblestones — “ein, swel, drei” — In chorus - line perfection like a newsreel flashback captioned: “Off to Poland—1039." The Bereitschaften is, technically, part of the national people's police, but it has as much concern with police duties as J. Edgar Hoover has with pushcart regulations in North Platte, Neb, ; Accordingly, an army-minded Fritz can't join the new Wehr macht straight-away. He's got to first enlist In the regular cops, Then he can request Wehrmacht duty. But there's no rantee he won't spend his lite chasing peddlers and

“While ahtting prim lice ‘While gett ary police training the rookie's political

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munist classrooms and in private interviews with assorted commissars, "If exceptionally bright in Marx—and stout of limb—he might win army assignment during the ‘first six weeks, Their pay ir the same, ranks identical, but police trappings are forgotten, . 8» EVEN A FRITZ who desires not to soidier, but joined because he fancied himself a Bherlock riolmes, might find himself in the army now. there aren't enough Teutonic tots aching to maneuver for Moscow, ) Once tapped for the Bereitschaften police-minded Fritz is in for the duration. While some lads are released from regular police ranks by grumbling sufficiently, no one gets out of the Bereitschaften these days-except to enter the Siberian deep freezer, East Germany has yet to dare conscription. Excluding those recruited from Russian POW Camps, sought a cop's career, I find these three types joining the Bereitachaften: ONE: Junior Ma..men. They are usually from the Freie Deutsche Jungend (FDJ), the Prussian-style Conimunist youth group, These glassy-eyed goops

believe their mission is to cleanse the reich (and world) of that wicked Wall

Street Yankee and wave a Red ‘of the FBI's top investigators. once was Gen. Patton's chief of he said, and so he quiered In- ,,.rican Sgt. Emmel added. |

flag over all Germany. Soon the FDJ will be the sole source of Bereitschaften muscle~ power - another steal from “Mein Kampf.” Adolf gave his cannon-fodder basic training in the Hitler youth before graduating them into the old Wehrmacht. TWO: The soldier - struck. They're from families that have

armied for a living for gen- | ei. ons. On the walls of their ‘an untenanted house at 3108 N. 'lles!” and “warmonger!” when Corydon and the other assalling ricer, a lieutenant colonel, didn’t thor of “Gone With the Wind.” |

homes are little brown snaps of grandpop in the Kaiser's spiked helmet, or daddy in the Afrika Korps. These laddies do not necessarily go “hoch” for commu~

nism with any sincerity. They including a portable sewing ma- nard Shaw, who will be 94 years Parking lot attendants beat him. were the first to run. They, like merely seek the comfy security chine and aftachments, was found old Wednesday is writing a new, The Incident occurred last Tues- the enlisted men, were unpre-| of & barracks billet — and the (in the homes of several of the play. What is it about? “Pif. day.

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| Found in Cleveland ad ! CLEVELAND, 0, July 24 REMEMBER: Through the (yp)—Discovery of a, hentiins shrapnel-shredded pages of his- | giemembered corpse in an east.

tory Germans have fought Un- side sium aroused fears today

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American Revolution was really { Police said the killer of an no. defeat for Great Britain. unidentified man mutilated his Englishmen ‘licked the bloody victim with a technique similar . Germans in that show.” to the fashion in whith. 12 men Meaning: Transplanted Eng- and women were slain’ here in lishmen under good general the late 1930's. Washington walloped the | The “Mad Butcher’ who ter-Weiner-Schnitzel Sercenasy Hessian (Germans years and rom Hesse province) who were never w ptured: i fighting for the British pound. rv Ea ae as a The k ings

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the i : rear. J oe Pfc. Ferguson 't remember, WASHINGTON, July 24 (UP) | “I started to climb a mountain took the GI into his thatched —American and foreign sources but it was filled with Communist house and him with a! today that sentiment is

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Touchy on Issue

big Korean straw hat, white increasing for a possible United he said, “so I just boldly walked trousers, white vest and a tight Nations sweep across the 38th on

| “Then we headed south,” Pfc. and in other countries who are EE ery 37 5, Sd as ud weve {boys leading way and his pal » a ea ans ite ty following” | Informants who em) ilte 8 tr Followed Silently {that no decision had been reached

THREE: The unemployed. | The body of a man about six They seek a job, any job at all. 'feet tall and between 25 and 30 Life in eastern Germany today, | years old was found Saturday’ for a kid, is an endless corri- night beneath a pile of steel dor .of bureaucratic frustration. 'gisders in a run-down industrial

If a husky goes to the local |... b d {Communist-run) employment |Reighyarhood frequented by Ro

agency they'll teil him: “We can | Identification Balked fix you up in the uranium mines | moo severed arms and a sev-| —-or would you rather join the oq jog were found near the de-| people's police? ‘capitate torso. Coroner S. R. Enough sald. Gerger said the man had been Furthermore, for farm hands dead from six to eight weeks and the Bereitachaften is practically identification might be impossible Hollywood dough. Fritz plods bhecausé the body was badly de-

(80 fags in rags behind a plow in East- (composed. i

ern Germany for 50 marks-a- | Detectives sald there was, no month—as a Wehrmacht pri- doubt the man was murdered. | vate he draws 250—and sports The body was found about! the nattiest uniform since Ber- three or four miles from Kings-| lin fell. : bury Run, an underbrush clogged stream near which the “Butcher” struck 12 times between September, 1935, and August, 1938, The decapitated and dismembered bodies of his victims—all| hoboes, drifters or prostitutes— were found in the same general area.

(Tomorrow: How commissars rubber hose the mind of each new Wehrmacht soldier.) Oona nd LTE RAR Time

Former White House Security Chief Dies

| 1.08 ANGELES, July 24 (UP) . Lucien C. Wheeler, chiet of tne 18t Cavalry Chief White House Secret Service staff Carries Patton ‘Luck’ during the terms of four presi- WITH THE 1ST CAVALRY dents, died yesterday. He was 73./n1vIgION, Korea, July 24 (UP) Mr. Wheeler headed the staffs _ Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay. com-| which protected Presidents Theo- manding general of the 1st Cav-| dore Roosevelt, William Howard alry Division, carries a military | Taft. Woodrow Wilson and War- swagger stick that once belonged ren Harding, to the late Gen, George Patton. After resigning from the Secret! Gen. Patton. who carried the

the Service in 1827, he joined the gtick throughout World War II, dent.

Justice. Department and was one presented it to Gen. Gay, who

Mr. Wheeler, a graduate of the staff. i Notre Dame University School of “It's my good luck,” Gen. Gay Law, is survived by two sons, sald. Actor Jackson Wheeler and Bank! a a ss Executive Charles Wheeler. Fu- LONDON DEAN BLAMES RUSS neral services will be conducted! [ONDON, July 24 (UP)—The Wednesday. .|dean of St. Paul's Cathedral threw a “peace” meeting into an

Questioning of Teen uproar today by blaming Russia {for the Korean War and the

Gang Set in Burglary ithreat of World War III. Some Nine boys suspected of rifling persons in tne audience shouted |

Meridian St. were scheduled to be Dean L. J. Collins criticized ‘questioned by Juvenile Ald Divi- Russia, |

'sijon authorities today. Se ete ite Police rounded up the youths, SHAW WORKING ON PLAY |

whose ages range from 13 to 17, AYOT BT. LAWRENCE, Englyesterday. Loot from the house land, July 24 (UP)--George Ber- |

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ral 3 dia was JJoliow him.” these factors favor a drive across \ " 'erguson « “We never ‘ex-'the North-South Korean border: _ “Just when things looked black- changed a word but just walked ONE: The Communists might = as if we were refugees, and no- withdraw and make preparations Offi 3 {body paid any attention to us.” ror another attack. i | { Pfe, Ferguson's biggest thrill TWO: North Korea would be ; . was a face-to-face meeting with stronger physically since fierce) . ‘a tommygunned North Korean fighting in the south has resulted! Nn Beatin Pro sentry. : "lin damaged cities, factories, rail-| ~ | “He came around the corner roads, bridges and harbors on a : 'and there was nothing to do but far greater scale than in Noth ‘Off or On? Queries Iwalk right past him,” he said. {Korea which has only suffered I “1 figured this was it but took POmbing attacks. Get Varied Answers ‘a fog iit pulled the big hat! THREE: United Nations efforts, (Continued From Page One) own ovr 55 Tac and. shuld ovr (be Bast rte ua Lo weit “ 'along like an old man of 90. And! investigation) “has been COOKING partes s me, 1 felt like 4 at that/there is little home of success or Sametime Rods sul be moment.” 'short of military means. . couldn't “get too excited about! The American walked rignt past, FOUR CAGE CRITE COUCH it” and added that he didn't/the uard who dnt even BIV® qo qers would make possible an think “it was tos damned bad." | a second ‘ook. integrated recovery program and Wine eis] agittaq the yes Skirted Taejon {free elections sponsored by United n on after yor, ¢ Nations, Feeney earlier said that he a ren TO ines, lied ® sith pected a report today or tOmoOr-i North Koreans coming in from School B od ow Jrom Inspector 3toutman, fall directions, some marching in| choo oar e¢ Inspector hat no, solumn fours and others just » he wasr't making an investiga- straggling in through the ie Plans ‘Music Fete tion but that it was in the hands paddies. | Ambitious young musicians will of the traffic division. {| Late Friday he met Sgt. Johniget a chance to show off their Still Says No M. Emmel of Philadelphia, Pa. talents at a Musical Festival

He was told that the Mayor who also was trying to get out. [sponsored by the Indianapolis sald he was, and still he sald no. pg. Ferguson's South Korean School Board. But, yes, he said, he was cer- sriondqy spotted Sgt. Emmel first] Children from the first through Jin A report was being prepared ,,4 prought him over, telling him eighth grades who are attending y Capt. Jacobs and Lt. Hague. | pore was another American summer school music classes in’

The patroimen involved, Jack {public schools will 3 Corydon and William Clark, are ur, the road. Fhe F dy Jeary In

members of the traffic division, The Mayor said he had tried to

rean eating watermelon and I A mixed quartet from School 76

to a village and nobody pair of Korean shoes, 'Parallel into North Korea when i pi 4 the enem

paid any attention to me.” | ‘wy sie0 was giv ypical the tide of battle eventually! “1 guess they never sxfected 10 Korean pack in given a typicall, tus, But the officer n see an American that far backiniy torndown rifle, helmet and) This touchy issue, it was ya. IOP. he Missing commander and took me for a Communist,” uniform. ' p 1s cussion: nerelihé 24th Division shcaped safely

on United Nations policy said jon when Red forces

knocked out at least one enemy °

tank pensonally. Dean Not Mentioned The North Korean radio claimed today that Red forces killed 2000 to 2500 American soldiers and captured 400 to 500 others in “annihilating” the remnants of the 24th °° in around Taejon and southeast of it. But the obviously exaggerated broadcast made no mention of Gen, Dean and this was taken as a hopeful sign. : : A number of 24th Division stragglers from Taejon reported seeing the general alive south of the city. Some said that Gen, Dean ha“ led a pl~toon back to Taejon under enemy fire In an attempt to recover American artillery. : An Air Force lieutenant who reached safety Sunday said the

{general was riding in a jeep, three

cars ahead of 'im, two miles south of Taejon. Saw General in Hills When an enemy machine gun opened up on the retreating 34th Regiment infantry units, the lieutenant said, Gen. Dean dived into a rice paddy and later made his way up a ridge. A South Korean intelligence

“All T could see,” Sgt. Emmel the Festival Wednesday at 8 p. m. agent said he saw Gen. Dean in ‘sald, “was a bent-over old Ko- at the World War Memorial. {the hills two days ago.

Another straggler said he heard

get in touch with Chief Rouls was surprised as hell when he Will be featured in the program. Communists behind the enemy

Saturday in regard to the inci- started speaking English.” Vocal, instrumental

“ rasn’ : 1 He could not reach the chief, hat t until he took off his solos also will be presented by the

spector Troutman who, according to Mayor Feeney, was making an investigation and would a report. :

submit all Friday night and most of Board. Ralph W. Wright, director Saturday before they reached the of music, has charge. i American lines. rier One reason they wouldn't fight GONE—NOT FORGOTTEN there would be witnesses in to was they had poor officers. { RORY Tu Da. Jy 24 Sa make statements today, He did Officers Often Ran i oy an a oon roops here| not say they would be defense ™ proposed, an e city council in-| ere were brilliant exceptions dorsed, a proposal that all traffic] witnesses (for the police), but {s this generalization. I saw one stop for one minute on Aug. 16,

remarked he had received two first lieutenant running a Mht- first anniversary of the traffic

Witnesses Due Chief Rouls said he thought

defending Officer talion when his commanding of- death of Margaret Mitchell, au-!

A certain newspaper, | He made the remarks in pass- There were ing—swiftly down the corridor. commanders and platoon leaders. Officers Corydon and Clark are But they were the exception rather accused of holding their prisoner. than the rule. Often as not, when Walter Hendren, 30, while two the enemy came close, officers

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1 recognized him as an best pupils from each school. {help!” 7 This is the first program of its! Army intelligence officers said The combined forces walked type presented by the School they were certain Gen. Dean had

not reached safety yet.

Camp Breckinridge, Ky., Reopened for Training

WASHINGTON, July 24 (UP) ~The Army ‘announced today that Camp Breckinridge, Ky. is being reopened as a replacement training center. The camp has a capacity of about 22,000 men. The first recruits will begin arriving in midSeptember. A spokesman said that the pull capacity could be reached by Nov. 1. Both draftees and volunteers will be trained at the center. . Camp Breckinridge is in western Kentucky near Henderson.

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