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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, September 4, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                September 1950 the stars and stripes Page 7 Rok coos4adopted Tokyo officer i if As buddies by gis by Jack James with troops in 3 email Bond of South korean policemen who lost their rifles but not their will to fight have been adopted by the there Are 13g of answering to names like Flash and it All started when six South koreans attached to a battalion More or less by Accident proved so x table in rounding up North korean that capt of contacted police authorities and brought Back 130 one officer said the koreans would Call out to the they were surrounded and prisoners would come pouring one patrol alone brought in 15 and that is More than we had taken altogether he the gis were Quick to adopt the South korean cops and scrounged equipment from Salvage dumps and recaptured goods to outfit their they All have my rifles and Stee wha we need now is m fit of then Well have to teach them water they Drain a in one the cops Are assigned three to a squad and each has a i they stick whether or Wilson said the Rok cops catch on just like squad Leader sgt John of said his favorite korean was nicknamed i showed him twice How to strip his the first time i put it together the next time he did he pvt Ramon of named his cop Kilroy and taught him some Fisher called answered that was As far out Kilroy to prove his a Little South korean ran up and Fisher asked you like to be a i when Kilroy Fisher admitted As the English lessons had gone one the Rok cops Are directly under command but they have a korean commander he is capt Chung Soo 25yearold refugee irom Model plane meet slated 30 in Wiesbaden 3 Safe special services will Spon Sor another Model air plane meet sept 30 with the Wing and wheel Wiesbaden air As Marjorie Safe manual Art said the second meet was arranged because of demand by Mode plane enthusiasts and the Success of the first contest in first prize for the airman receiving the highest total Point score in the meet will be an eight Day tour of Switzerland in the Competition is open to All Safe and Neucom personnel and their the Competition is divided into three categories under 16 years of age 16 to 26 years of and 2 years of age or Model categories will be flying stunt and the categories will be judged on a combined class Recd basis engine displacement entry Blanks can be obtained through special services officers at All korean front up Irith american and other in forces who arc battling North korean aggression urge revision in recruiting by King 3 High ranking officers said the army should drastically revise its recruiting and training the army should stress recruit ment of fighting men who Are will ing to die for their if the officers and forget about Bland appeals to travel  scions the officers cannot be named because did not speak for they aired their views on the korean they also suggested changes in the concepts of training to prepare troops to fight in rugged country As Well As along wide recruits rudely one High officer said some of his men were enticed into the service by advertisements emphasizing the Chance to learn a to be fed and and be pensioned while still he added they were rudely jolted when they Felt the rocks of Korea instead of the Tatami floor matting of a colonel nodded the entire recruiting system needs Revi he instead of appealing to the weak we should Appeal to the to the men who want to give some thing to their instead of to serve it and die for it if need there Are men for such a fighting another officer said army equipment was not designed for primitive country such As frontline confessional chaplain maj Harold prude hears the confession of a i somewhere in the priest set up his confessional in the Shadow of a Patten just behind the front policewoman lot is not Happy one in soviet zone by Steven Williams sept3 lot of a lady cop hereabouts is indeed an unhappy one of them told me All about it in an Alley behind a bombed build ing in this soviet zone Metropolis where thousands of persons from both sides of the Iron curtain have gathered for the historic Leipzig i suppose you think we Are Star Rye Yed about the great she said in fair High school i suppose you think we work for the party because we favor comm let me Tell we do we hate the party we hate the we hate a 26yearold traffic cop with fetching Hazel she continued better than slavery we go along with the party Only because it is better than death or slavery or if the party says that we Are the party we Are not a shabby Man who had arranged the had originally hired him to watch try told us All was Well and returned to his Post As Lookout at the end of the with cosmetics and feminine clothes to replace the Square shouldered drab Blue she had it was the possibilities that worried they have committed the worst crime that can be committed against a they have taken away our we Are no longer we Are Considine sees conflict lasting into Winter icelanders Volunteer 3 than go icelanders have volunteered to fight against the North korean but were rejected by the authorities said san 3 ins International news service correspondent Bob fresh from the korean has predicted that the War will run into the Considine said that All things being As they Are the War probably will last until Christmas correspondents already have ordered Winter hardest part of the fighting will come in the Winter because the korean climate Considine said that the prediction the gis will be out of the Rice paddies by Christmas must be qualified by the Assumption that chinese communist forces will not enter the Considine estimate of the length of the conflict was less optimistic than the View held by some Mill Lary men in who were re ported last week to believe Victory by thanksgiving Day is a Possi Considine described the and verse circumstances under which Amer ican troops entered Korea As a most sobering expedience for the we got kicked around by the North Considine con Only the most desperate kind of toe tote the greatest coordination our military services Ever enabled us to hold what we Fie explained How the enemy moves supplies through apparently impenetrable they do he by going into a town and taking their heavy stuff apart and then strapping it on the backs of woman and them work like Considine paid tribute to the ingenuity of the american soldiers in meeting the Maze of difficulties raised by a baffling Type of fight they have done an amazing Job of he our men were trained for the Normal tidy Type of War with things moving just right and the lines suddenly they found themselves in a miserable Asiatic fight ing under indescribable there was dirt and dust and countless refugees pouring into the Little Fingernail of territory we were holding in South but our Fellows were Able to hold and to fight and to learn the new Type of warfare we could not possibly have done without the air Force and the Navy and Marine air i think we would have lost a month ago without the air child stars Bank account bulges with los 3 child actress Margaret Briens Piggy Bank now holds about that was her net Worth last her Gladys Obrien informed Superior As guardian of her Daugh ters Obrien asked approval of a plan to limit margarets living expenses to a month and to require her to invest per cent of her earnings in Obrien reported 1919 earnings by who is totalled 766 to a in o 9 3 special medical staffs of army hospitals and dispensaries Are scheduled to be Cut from 620 so that personnel May participate in the joint fall training exercise of troops in the number of army physicians remaining in permanent medical units will be sufficient to attend to Neucom occupation personnel and their dependents who require Essen tial medical during the period of the training Neucom residents were asked to look after their own minor is As far As adhere to clinic and postpone visits to a physician for chronic com plaints until after personnel requiring immunizations were urged to get their Booster shots before  
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