Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1951 — Page 22

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- $4-Million-a-Year Business He Rebuilt From Truckload of Silk Lifts Community

By DAVID M. NICHOL

KAPPELIN, Germany, Apr. 27 (CDN)-—The saga of the 9 million homeless and dispossessed refugees in Western Germany| is one of almost uniform tragedy, It is a story of uprooted existences, of waisted talents, of|

shabby and hopeless living which makes the exceptions all the gesturing with the stub of a thick |

more outstanding. . In some areas co-operatives have been formed. Ancient skills are being retained or restored. Private and public assistance has béen given individuals and groups. Blt few have hit the jackpot as has Bernard Liening. Mr. Liening's upward progress is. one to cheer the ruggedest in-

Australian Reds Qrder Purge—Er, ‘Political Review’

SIDNEY, Australia, Apr. 27

dividualist, and it is lifting an| entire community with him. Kappeln, on the Schlei River estuary near the Danish border, is one of two ‘white spots on the employment map of SchleswigHolstein. The other is the sub-| urban fringe of Hamburg.

| |

Apr. 27 (UP) — Party passed resolutions yester-

day asking Juan D. Peron and his |

[from an office cupboard, all are boasts.

charm.

|born {most of his earlier life in Berlin. {Until 1943, when he was bombed sw ow out in the alr raids, he owned and BENNO, as most of his 850/operated ‘a factory there which employees call him to his face,/made women’s coats.

. . [cided to accept a German army Argentine Legislators off fer to take over a textile plant

in [in occupied Poland and to repair Urge Peron to Run Again army clothing. Advancing Rus-

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, sians put a nend to that. The Peronist Liening was a refugee again.

has been influenced strongly by|annual payroll for voluntary American methods and movies. social purposes, It supports symHis clothing, his office, his tech- phony conerts and theater proniques, his speech, and the genu- ductions, and company outings. ine whisky and soda he produces “I bring the city here,” he “My workers don’t “modern.” | have to go anywhere,” “Production and satisfied work-| As always, housing was a prob-

ers. That's our secret,” he 8aY8, 1am, but company funds are help-

{ing to lick that. Thirty-two family units have been built and 30 more are under construction. Other newly built units provide single and double rooms for 78 bachelor girls.

yellow pencil which is all that) remains of an earlier career. The| pencil, he believes, has a special

Mr. Liening is only 43. He was in Westphalia, but spent

Looking over its ruins, he de-

Mr.

Somehow, in the frantic summer of 1945, he got as far as Keppeln with a single truck and its load of bolts of silk lining

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

German Refugee Bernard Liening Hits The Economic Jackpot

(CDN)—The Communists have = ° °° a new term for “purge.” wife Eva to run for the presi-| At's now called a “political re- dency and vice presidency of Argentina.

view”—and that's what the Australian Communist party has just

The representatives and senators, meeting separately, passed |

material. dled, borrowed a single machine, and put 12 refugee girls to work.

He traded and fid-

ordered for its membership. The 13,000 card-carrying comrades over here will now under80 what the party calls a “thorough political ideological examination.” Its aim: “to eliminate weakness in our work” and

the resolutions unanimously, | IT WAS TOUCH ANI GO The Argentine elections are ,,¢i} reform in 1948. In 1950, Slated for February, 1952. \however, the Liening concern, It will be a campaign for re- which “makes women’s coats exelection for Peron. clusively, did a $4 million busi-

. ee ness. Its turnover this year Widow Makes Good should exceed $5 mililon.

o : | The “factory” is two former) tq kick out ‘mersbers who fail to On $500 Pledge |grain warehouses on opposite ] THE SALE IS measure up. ALTUS, Okla. (UP)—More than sides of a street. One houses IN OUR ‘First victim is R. C. Morgan, 20 years ago an Altus resident Mountainous heaps of material, who has just been expelled. He is cutting rooms, and assembly] WAREHOUSE pledged he would give $500 if the m Th th h Hi i made the mistake of taking a : : |lines, The other has offices, a AT 1009 capitalistic job as industrial I rst Presbyterian. church ever buyers’ salon which might be a officer for an engineering firm. He Constructed a new building. nightclub, and a subsidized cafe] N« KEYSTONE also failed to give “sufficient help” Bie gied meantime. Recently, for the entire staff where full} JUST ACROSS 310: 14 the Communist “peace” cam- When work was started on a new meals cost 10 cents. { NITURE 4 p | Tax law permits him to set THE STREET

church building, his widow contributed the $500 in his name.

paign, charges the party.

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