European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                September 1950 the stars and stripes 3 comedy outsiders with the 27th regiment in every platoon Guy who he the Quality it humor which it is Fen possible to describe but delights it is not founded on wit by Jimmy Cannon York Post War correspondent Jimmy now on the staff it the new York served the stars end correspondent with the 34 array during its Advance across and and when it is narrated to the out it becomes vague and such soldiers Are frequently in competent or baffled by their Trade but Many Are very Brave in the jokes of an army Are usually conceived by correspondents and the songs soldiers sing Are often bawled in rear Echelon officers clubs and unknown to line in an outfit Are Guys who behave strangely in a single instance or make a remark to an officer that is mirth less when repeated by rangers who cant evaluate the but these Guys Are cherished by their company and be come Sci a one is pvt Francis Shields of and people who never met him discuss he is in the among the Quali ties that endear him his Fellows is his size and his old for some unaccountable find Little Guys and Shields is five he is a Why Man and appears shrunken in his billowing and has a pinched face worn by be fore he came into the Shields bartender in Bis old mans and this excites laughter for reasons i cant other Guys in the platoon have been More but what Shields did when a Forward observation Post was attacked has become a great legend of the with him was sgt Charles Keller Man of is we were up on the just the two of Kel Lennan and at the gooks i tarted in attacking Shields had carbine and was firing away at ill bet you Herr was around co of them coming no that a yellow spotted trotted across the and stopped when she saw he was a figures in zone search rubbed her Rcck and she Lay at his making Happy there was old Shields firing at them and one Pook came within 75 of 20 Yards of where he teas Kellerman the dog adoring him and Licking his dirty All of a sudden Shields slopped firing and took after the he has a Bayonet on the carbine and there he is charging the the Guys standing around who have heard the Story Many times and told it laughed As though this was the orig Inal version and it was All very new the other gooks Are firing Point Blank at the sergeant laughing Hii self but there is old Shields with the Bayonet for the gook just like they was All alone youd of thought there was Only him and this gook Kellerman looked at Roe As though i were about to Challenge his next you know what he was holier ing he he was hollering ill get you you son of Bob Hope never got a bigger he went 50 or 75 Yards after the gook and them other Guys All firing at Kellerman still surprised at what he had the gook took off and he turned around and come Back and i had to give him an order to come off the he wanted to stay there with them 600 books on he said hed just As soon stay there As any wheres else and theres Only two of us and the gooks were throw ing grenades and everything else Hes a a morale we really get out of you know what he was in the states a bartender the character came shambling by where we were standing and i asked him Why he stopped shooting to Chase a communist with his that want he that was somebody he stood quiet and Embar a Little Man who looked much older than Tell Cannon some one of the soldiers Shields looked at morose and painfully and after a while excused himself because he said the company commander wanted to see what a card he Kellerman said As Shields walked up the of the Han 20 delayed is a a big like those of the Best Days in the last machines and guns streamed across the Han River All Day and pushed on toward behind them on the left Bank of the River an Iron Glacier was piling up More amphibious artillery trucks and jeeps and every conceivable was moving Over the rutted roads raising columns of swirling dust it could be called a break through except that there was very Little opposition to break by afternoon some 200 prisoners had been rounded up with no More fight left in they ranged from boys of 14 to grown they All claimed to be from co a Lith 78th North korean at this Point it Iball mud and sweat and Yong Tungpo is burning with mounting columns of Black smoke rising to the the ambulances Are coming Back while the main Stream Rolls there Are lifeless american and All the two Marine both born in the were interrogating the it was a double Check in korean and it of and it by Relman Morin Robert Wallach of is in Frankfurt searching for clues to the whereabouts of his German the former Erika shown at left with her Wallach disappeared in Berlin while looting for information about the Noel her Foster parents believed to be held behind the Iron latin lockets key in role 22 the 20nation latin american bloc captured an important role in the fifth United nations general As Sembly when Colombia won the chairmanship of the key political committee and Cuba that of the economic and financial in Venezuela was elected As one of the seven Assembly vice thus giving latin Amer Ica three seats on the 14nation steering which arranges priorities on the the steering committee consists of the Assembly seven Vic presidents and chairmen of the six other in addition to the Assembly voted vice presidencies to the China and the chief Delegate of each country i the Dick of were getting their the communists said they had been brought Down from North Korea five Days they had some machine guns and but not much other they said they were told to hold the Han line at All that reinforcements were but they did not attempt much they opened up on the amphibious tractors full of on the River at when the bullets bounced off the sides they stopped shooting and americans were wounded and killed on the right Bank of the Long after the fighting apparently As the reds scores hid in thatched hut villages and waited All Day Long there were bursts of fire from places of a North korean Soldier was brought in with his Arm and shoulder badly shattered and his uniform drenched with he told medical corpsmen that after he was his com manding officer told him to Dis assemble the machine guns and move the Soldier was unable to use his the officer asked which Arm was then kicked it repeatedly until the shoulder was he selected ordinarily serves Vic presidents chairmen listed six other committees each consist of 59 Mem Ber the chairmen elected Are minister of War Roberto Urdaneta Arbel economic and Gus Tave of cultural and humanitarian Jvan heaven of the Netherlands wan wait of Thailand who became the first Royalty to hold a key Post in the administrative and it Gen the maharajah Jam Sahib of of Frantisek of texan on us trip n 22 Exa Irman who Brough his English wife Back Home for a vacation is going to stay sergeant in the air forces Burtonwood Woodrow of Hills received a Cable from his father notifying him that As a reservist he had been ordered duty at Rabbins Why go All the Way Back Home Goodrich asked air Force officials at Burtonwood i served 4 months Here during world War after an Exchange of radio Grams with bobbins Goodrich was activated at Runyon estate new sept 22 Damon writer and humor left when he died it was revealed Glacier victims owe Ives to cargo of Woolen textiles 22 seven icelanders and three Amer who survived a frigid siege n Europe greatest owed heir lives today to a cargo of textiles and the courage of two the 10 airmen reached the safety and comparative warmth of reek Avik last night after Kristinn and Olafur Olsen broke through huge snowdrifts to guide hem off Vatu they made their Way 22 Miles on foot to a Camp where jeeps took them to he Small planes picked them up and brought them o six of the members of he icelandic airways spymaster been on the Icecap a week since their cargo Laden plane crashed there on a flight irom to the other three american airmen and an icelandic civil Avia Ion stuck with them when their c47 Rescue plane could not get off the Snow filed the americans were capt George of it Patrick of and sgt John of the airmen survived the cold aided by a cargo aboard the crashed of Woolen rugs conveniently House passes Aid ban rider on arms Bill 22 the House yesterday approved Compromise amendment to the emergency appropriation Bill which would ban Marshall flan help to countries whose military Trade with communist states might endanger american Security moving for final agreement with the Senate on the big spending Bill for rearmament of the u and its Western the House accepted an administration backed proposal which leaves it up to the National Security Council to determine what Type of Trade with the communist world would menace the it rejected a Senate provision which would have banned Marshall plan Dot tars to countries which sell potential War materials to Russia or her stumbling Block cleared the National Security Council consists of the vice pres secretaries of state and de sense and the chairman of the National Security resources the provision was the last major stumbling in the final passage of the spending Bill which was ironed out on All but the mar shall plan Point in a joint Senate House conference last if the Senate accepts the House As appeared Likely in View of its administration the appropriations Bill then will go to the White the administration put on Ita heaviest pressure to defeat the sea Ace provision which or Truman said might drive some of the foreign allies into the soviet Senate oks 2 Bills on i Absentee vote 22 the Senate has approved two Bills to make it for gis to the measures now go to the White House for president Truman Sig one requires the defense depart ment to furnish servicemen away from Home with postcards for use in applying for Absentee the other waives a requirement that Absentee Soldier ballots and voting material be a certain weight and size so that states can use forms already on Jap communists ousted from factory in Brawl sept 22 Hundred Union singing the communist compelled armed policemen to resort to Force to eject them from a japanese factory which the work ers had seized in a labor dispute with the the workers hurled chairs and stones at the but were finally overpowered after an hour Long free Orall indo reds slow drive on fort s a i n 32 troops ran into scattered but stiff guerrilla today in their cautious approach by Jungle and Mountain to the communist held for Tress of skirmishes broke out As the for eign legionnaires and bearded North african Gums probed and blasted along colonial route 4 and the adjacent route historic invasion route from the leads from the Border of communist past the Gateway fortress of Dong to the Tonkin Plain and the heart of where French and native Vietnam forces Are fight ing a Foury Earold War against communist led vie Minh the communists captured Dong he in a Surprise raid germans sentenced for War atrocity 22 for Mer German accused of torturing and shooting a British 20 frenchmen and a number of French yester Day were Given prison terms ranging from one to 10 years by a French military three others were sentenced to death in absent a and two to five years in former chief adjutant Larenz commander of the German military police corps at got 10 years at hard his sub Eugen Seugert Biedermann and Friedrich received sentences of five four years and one the crimes shooting took place at Yugo seek ban on veils sept 22 government yesterday forwarded a proposed Law to parliament Banning the wearing of veils by moslem women in