European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Saul Pett Willie it is generally is a self effacing Man who might pass for Model citizen except that now and then he likes to Rob Bank he likes it so Muffi and does it so Well he was recently added to the Bis list of the 10 most wanted men in the his last ton March in which she took from the manufacturers Trust in new was a classic example of the Sutton papers he left behind show that Willie carefully watched the1 Bank for a timed and wrote Down the movements of while he was preparing for this and while the Law was after him for breaking of a Pennsylvania jail in Willii Juras living very the Public payroll As he worked for year a Porter at a City poor farm in Staten nobody there unkind word for Willie was Nice waive was he carried mail for the lady ran errands but never accepted about on March the Bank receptionist came to work at the manufacturers Trust in the first employee to he unlocked the he was quickly followed in by a slim Man with a Pencil line Mustache and a this was 14 out of 16 Bank employees later Willie came in with two leaving two More when All the employees were everybody waited until the lock guarding the vault went off two Bank officials then opened the gunman Willie collected the in Small and herded including an inquisitive mail into the basement everybody says a Nice and pleasant some even said was kind of he could himself with Apost William Francis alias Edward Slick Willie me William James Richard Leo Holland and Julian was born in his now was a not Rich but not poor still i Brooklyn Are willies brother and Fine police with maintains no i willies official police record began in Brooklyn when he was 19 with a sus Pended sentence on a burglary in dressed As a made off with from a new York jewelry later that year he was nabbed and sentenced to 30 years in sing but two years later he and another prisoner police finally caught in a three room Philadelphia apart ment where he was living with a girl who thought he was in real Willie Drew 25 years in the Penn easter state in whose Library he often read books on Sutton finally broke Loose after being transferred to the state prison at Holmes that was from then the Queens rumours linked Willie with Bank thefts in Miami and new Orleans and even with the haul from in Boston s says one is that is living quietly in some suburban area holding Down a 9 to 5 Job As a he could easily pass for a clerk or Junior he is probably respect even liked by his 0 members of the my customs unit keep a close watch u German customs guards search the Luggage it passengers at the Rhine main Airport customs dec customs limit pays off 4 j of special Foree cripples operations of biggest smuggling gang by Howard staff writer officers and men of one of the pcs crack special the 7751st my Are receiving congratulations this month on completion of their first year of operation in the Bremen in and sector of letters expressing appreciation for the units work against International smug gling across Germany Borders have been received by it col George unit from maj Gen Frank and Brig Gen John Neucom Provost in its first year of this com pact unit in conjunction with German customs has seriously crippled the most and persistent smuggling operations the world has Ever Western Allied nations on the and South and soviet dominated areas on the with its War impoverished Are the targets for smuggling operations approaching a according to the Best estimates of occupation so Gigantic were smuggling operations becoming that in March Gen Lucius then military ordered creation of an army police to halt the flow of contraband which he estimated was draining a year from German Industrial production Western Germany was overrun with some involving gift parcels that were diverted to the Black involving illegal currency some involving the smuggling to the East of embargoed and some Hie importation of luxury upon the 7751st my Cus Toms unit set about plugging tiie count less smuggling first step was the establishment of patrols at Western Germany 22 official International Border crossing including airports and the port of Bremer my Laws governing customs treatment of occupation person Nel were to be enforced by the customs unit or by the German customs under supervision of the customs unit soldiers of the unit have a prime mis Sion of observing the customs checks made by German officials of occupation the unit also observes the Way in which Border guards comply with Ger Man and reports laxity in enforcement such vigilance has trapped thousands of Large and and con Traband of All valued in the hundreds of thousands of has been unit records caught in the customs net at various tunes in the last year have been illegal armaments aircraft contraband truckloads of contraband Isle and Hico customs enforcement groups were cooperating with the army unit in stopping occupation personnel bringing in com Mercial quantities of items like foodstuffs and nylons through a unit Check a year ago showed that one base Apo in the zone received in one month than pounds of Bart Erable material on which Black Market profits were at since the eur combat Erffee shipments to Apos have per customs unit officials Only recently the unit has incorporated an investigations to detect smuggling before it Ever reaches Hie Mckee letter said in part i desire to my sincere appreciation for the Fine work you have done in one Short but eventful assigned to a Job completely strange to you and hurriedly you have pitted your characters and newly acquired skills against some of tube Cleverest smugglers in the in this yearlong War of your achievements have been r As remarkable As your military conduct has been exit should be encouraging for you to know that in the opinion of Many civilian and americans and you have done an out standing in his to the concluded the Overall accomplishments of your organization have More than justified its High Praise the 128 enlisted men and 12 officers of the unit also came from Robert director of tace Hico office of economic Buell and his executive maj Warren Are proud of tie unit a firs year and Are aware that smuggling contraband in and out of Ger Many is still a vast and lucrative they that definite Prog Ress has been made to control such illicit operations since the creation of the 7751st my customs feature Section contents articles i dec customs unit pays off by Howard zones t by Shirley Katzander i m Crossroads three continents by Ken i picture features swing your partners a Square dance make it and break v vol reflections on the Arno Xii regular features report from America ii strictly Femina Viii Bridge problems by Josephine Culbertson Viii Book notes by Arthur Noyes in Cooks tour by Sara in latest dec movies x fans program of the week x dec showcase i crossword Puzzle i f wishing Well i this weeks cover the lean pair of m this weeks cover was 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