European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Star spangled expatriate. Continued from Page 10 John c. H. Lee. Commanding general com a during the last War. Lopp had donated a piece of his property to the american legion for use As a i dub donated his services As manager of the club. Condition of entry was that any i or wac entering the club be accompanied by a service Man or woman. Of the opposite sex. One night general Lee visited the club was outraged at the spectacle of was sitting Orgis laps. " hell general protested Lopp did t your wife Ever sit on your Lap before you. Were married and if Theydon t do it Here in the open you la drive them to doing it somewhere else which seemed to be a Good. Enough answer for general Lee. The years Between the wars were bus i years for was Little to keep him Busy in connection with his. Own holdings beyond depositing rental checks but he found other preoccupations. He was Active with the Amer ican chamber of Commerce in Paris he sponsored the Paris Post of the Amer ican legion he organized the int club a gathering of rough and ready americans in Paris. But mostly he worked at raising funds and i supervising the construction of a permanent american Hospital in Paris. When that was built he quarrelled with other backers Over the. High charges demanded of patients at the outbreak of world War ii Lopp with Ann Morgan organized a new. American ambulance corps an regretfully because at his age he Roll away to the Maginot line when the breakthrough of May 1940, came however Lopp was unable to remain quietly in Paris. Jumping into his car he drove All night until he reached the Headquarters of the Amer ican ambulance corps in the Village of Rathel in the ardennes. German planes were already overhead bombing strafing and organized resistance had ceased. He ordered the Field Hospital there evacuated helped to Load the wounded into the1 ambulances. At Dawn when the last patient had been loaded he. Jumped into his car and left. Two Kilometres Distant he looked Back saw the buildings in which the Hospital had been located go up in flames As German bombers dropped their lethal in Paris he used his neutrality Well if not wisely. In his car flying the american Flag he took the family of Daladier South to Vichy an act the germans discovered some three weeks. Lateran irate came to his apartment threatened to shoot nun but thought better of it in View of Lapp citizenship. Most. Americans wer going Home. But i could t leave Paris no when she needed me most he says. It. Was not alone my. Love of Paris which held me but the feeling that Here under the germans would be work re Quiring selflessness and drive. At first he recalls the work seemed piddling enough. At one time i was looking after 14 Homes and tending12 dogs left in my care by returning after Pearl Harbor it was different. By one device or another for More than a year he masqueraded As a Swiss citizen he managed to keep Clear of German interference hauling food to the american internment Camps atom Pisegne Clermont and vital. He also managed to wangle from German occupation officials the Bristol hotel for use As a lodging House for British and. Americans above the age of 70", stranded in Paris with no Means of securing. Funds together with Norman Lewis a american banker in Paris who was killed on liberation Day and Ferdinand Lambrecht an american Oculi St Lopp founded the american vigilance com. Mittee an underground organization out of which the american committee i Paris was later to . The Trio gathered against the Day of Victory dates names places of collaboration with the germans a list valued highly by the Cic when american troops finally marched into Paris. Today he complains that he is lonely old Man living by himself with his memories. It is a Young Man world and there is not much left for me to do but remember he Lopp having nothing to do is a purely comparative term at the moment he is engaged in fighting for extraterritorial rights for the american Hospital in Neuilly . Veterans administration to provide. Through the american Hospital hospitalization for veterans abroad just As itis providing for those at Home in devel Oping the first american cemetery i Paris a dream of Benjamin Franklin Only now being realized. -1 old friends frequently chide him about the time and Siffort he puts inon landscaping and developing the new american cemetery where Lopp to rest some Day to such friends he says Sarah Bernhardt whom he knew Well slept night after night in. Her coffin for More than 15 years. The were 15 years in which she gave some of her most magnificent portrait of the Young. Man As a cartoonist r continued from Page 14 Side he asked dryly do you think this Well yes.,sort my chuckle faded. Ignoring me he shuffled through the others. Of the lot he kept one for speculation a cartoon he d done nun believing double take at. The rest were racked up like cards after a poker ses Sion Aud pushed Hac to me. Cramming them into my envelope i crouched expectantly. In my chair. Do you suppose i should come Back next week he tucked in his Chin and belched a. Little editorial belch. Why not Haven t anything else to since that time doth of us have had our hands full a Trade term for. Bell Ful with regular wednesday rendezvous. Cartoon buyers on leading weeklies soberly to limb through 3000 or so sketches every week. Their Only equipment is a thumb a Secretary and a coloured Pencil to Mark of on those few that get the hesitant nod. These pencils Are usually about half an inc Long and last several months apiece. Like Early barnstorming pilots who flew by the seat of their pants an Edito r pencils through pounds of illustrate jokes by the Nape of his memory for coincidence duplicates More gags than swiping. The stars and stripes Price printed a cartoon of mine showing a unreconstructed German moppet firing a backyard still. Mother stood by telling bavarian neighbor it in t very Good schnapps but it keeps him in this Spring two years later the new yorker filled ene Page with abasement scene of two boys a still and a Motherly figure and guest on the stairs / we always insist they Makei heir own spending any editor. Would shrug it off As coincidence. A fair shrugged myself i could almost swear those Little boys were making schnapps. ". Whatever they were at a Crafty. Gaiman could squeeze a dozen or More related situations out of it probably. " winding up with t the kids shrinking human Heads on a Rainy afternoon in. Africa. ". /. The Gaiman is one of two available to cartoonists. A born wit who can t lives by feeding not quite exhausted ideas to completely exhausted artists. When his ideas sell he gets 25 per cent of the cartoonist s take. Living happily off both him who can t draw and him who can to think is the agent. For another 25 per cent he takes on the terrific Burden of sealing the Caito Orvist s work in an envelope and addressing it to a editor. He has a Secretary to lick the Stamps. When this combination works " which is to say when the editor on whose Good nature they depend for their separate livelihoods in t being troubled by his ulcer the cartoon s quite a sensation then to see your name in Type legible Only through the Lens of the mount Palomar Telescope nestled there among the ads " to brassieres and dog food i remember the Day i wad Riding on a packed sub Way after a night s work and noticed a Sweet old lady smiling at something in a Magazine. I shouldered my Way Over to her hoping i might find out i really Don t know what makes. People laugh. It was one of my own cartoons. Plucking her sleeve i squinted my bloodshot eyes at her. Do you think that s funny Why yes she cackled Don t you As a matter of fact i did t. / Harry Walker now with Phil lies was 65th div. Big gun in 45. S dec alumni make Good. Continued from Page 5 so of lot to learn. But you can ask the boy who were with me if they did t get Good " there Are quite a few. Of the boys around the big leagues who Are Quali fied to answer that question. One of them Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Harry Walker ran a Jackwell a close second last season in the contest for thee s most distinguished alumnus. With the 65th. Division in Europe Walker had led the i league in hitting with an average of .427, before on the 71st division club. Be. Fore the War As a St. Louis Cardinal outfielder he had been distinguished chiefly by the Accident of birth which made him the Little brother of Brook Lyn s Dixie hitting his stride last ran away with the National league batting championship posting a Mark of _363. Two of Blackwell s old teammates outfielder. Johnny. Wyrostek and second baseman Benny Zientara now hang their uniforms alongside la okie s As. Regulars with the Cincin Nati team. Another Pitcher Ken Heintzelman is Walker s buddy on the Phil lies. Pitcher Al Brazle has resumed his pitching duties with the St. Louis cardinals and last year turned in a credit Able record of 14 wans against eight a feats ranking 13th among the National league pitchers in _ the earned run averages. All these dec graduates Are pretty Well established by this time among the stars of the major leagues but the May soon have More Cor Pauy from among their former Ramazotti one of the".7ist s leading hitters and an dec Stariat shortstop broke into the lineup of Thev Brooklyn. Dodgers last Yearl and May yet get his Chance As a big league regular Bill--11 Ayers after a Fine 2g-and-10 season As a Pitcher with the Atlanta crackers1"" to Maetie ear was brought up for a re Riata s wit along Jim Post Ching i ,. A standout army no Walkaway. Petition65th fronted Trinkle who has, the Relief Ace of the new York giants staff an the hitting of Bama Rowel new with the Phillies and Clarence Maddern a -.332-slugger with los Angeles last Yea whom .4he cubs brought up to the majors this Spring. T " in the. Three game series for the third army Crown at Nurnberg s sol Dier s Field Blackwell gave a preview of How he was later to mystify big league hitters. He opened the series1 with a no hit performance and then came Back just two Days later with a cd two hitter winning on a first inning Home run by Ramazotti. 7 although this performance established the. 71st As a team of High Caliper even by stateside professional standards it was surprisingly beaten in ,7lstdiv.hurleris now Walker s Peffly teammate the playoff for the european theat championship by the Oise base Sec All stars. In a reversal1 of Fortu Blackwell lost a heart breaking hitter and a Well pitched nine hitter both by scores of 2-1. In Between losses a five hit shutout of the team by Bill Ayers was wasted. The Man who beat Blackie on Bot occasions was a tall studious look fellow named Sam Nahem who Haberen known chiefly in the. Past things having Little to do with pitching ability. He had figured As a throwaway in one of the biggest of the decade going to the St. Cardinals in the Deal which sent Jom Edwick and Curt Davis to Brookli besides this he was the Only practice lawyer in the big leagues and a gained a certain notoriety by the Habi cof poring Over his Law books on Tri rides while the other boys were bit their poker games. This Spring Nahem has brought Back by the phils for at try at the big leagues and he May Joithe increasing list of dec vets who a " gained stardom. Ome of the names which Folio the old european theater Leaf have watched for in big league score s have failed to make their petted appearance. Maurice Van Bays who joined the 71st for the championship tilt against Oise had been regular outfielder with the Pitts at pirates before the War. But has sin drifted into Bush league oblivion Baues another pirate pitched for Oise has. 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