European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jor wary 1953 the stars and stripes Page 11 in Pat Cpl John As is bling a Spade flush in a Danae in Hatt visions of some Send Bome Money and a c h a n c e to the suddenly an enemy mortar Shell landed in the old helmet the boys of the 7th div were using for a pot the Shell didst go Oft but the game in the excite per Coso had spilled his cards inthe dirt and  prove be held the winning that just one of the c lose shaves recounted in the unusual files the army has at the Here Are a few More cases pfc John of was Busy minding his Owa business one Day when grenade hit his despite the direct the lethal thine bounded John bounded North and was out of harms Way when it another close Call came to pfc Francis of new he had stepped into a Bunker to make a up of just As the water teas coming to a mor tar Sheu crashed through the roof and landed in Stagnes canteen the 25th inf div Soldier came out with nothing damaged except his and his fondness for 9s Spade flush then there was Ernest of he got a pro motion to Corporal by but he got demoted by was proceeding to an outpost assignment when he was pinned Down briefly by enemy sni per upon reaching the outpost he was a Little chagrined at a buddy failure to offer congratulate discovered the reason when he finally noticed that a snipers Bullet bad neatly ripped the new stripes from Bis pfc Elvin of claims the worlds record for a Long Range the 24th div Soldier was in Small arms Light when he Felt his foot he thought he had been for closer inspection revealed that a Ballet had cot through his shoe and skimmed along the Bot Tom of his a inf die Soldier in Korea proudly carries a souvenir of his close sgt Hugh of was coming Back from reconnaissance Mission with two other men when an enemy sniper opened Porter made a a hunk of hot nicked his dog tags and sent them he picked up the busted All he got was a slight burst around the Sec Robert of we returned to his buit fief from combat patrol at on dawns Early he took off his and hit the Twenty inmates later his phone Iii at Vance outpost spotted wounded chinese Soldier 7o Yards Fugate grabbed a sidearm and set crossing a narrow Aliev he the enemy greeted him with a Low Wethi Guri Fugate marched to with the prisoner safely Dei Fugate Felt a looked he had the subzero put on curb Market 6 new York curb whose robust growth paralleled that o toe during the past Century has taken on its new name o american Stock at present the nations Secor largest securities Market Exchange lists 793 Stock and 83 Bond issues Frith a total of More than 000 shares valued at around the which had its be ginnings on the Curbstone of lower for its Home today a 14story building of White Indiana Limestone which looks across Tri nity Church graveyard toward the new York Stock Exchange two blocks id Gold Rush about the time the Gold Rush started in California in an equally frenzied Rush got under Way Here inthe financial District braving Snow and Bro kers Mel outdoors at 8 Oclock in the morning to Trade until night fall insecurities that were to help provide funds for the spurting their trading posts were lamp manhole mail boxes and in the Early in the exchanges trading floor now covers More than Square feet and contains 21 trading v an important part of today Trad ing extends beyond Domestic Stock and Bond the largest Market for foreign securities inthe the i ls52traded 173 issues Irby 20 foreign Homburg what yesteryear traders lacked in finesse and organization they up in they shouted and sprinted As they executed orders and their financial antics Drew bystanders in the past marvelled at the sight of traders spoiling Colo splashed derbies and enabled clerks to recognize their the clerks would Perch on window Sills two or three stories Aboye the Street and shout Down orders to the the Rio seas something like new years eve Celebration every trading it got so bad that neighbors complained end brokers introduced a on handed signalling hectic trading american Stock Exchange noved s e v e r a 1 times in the financial District before it settled on its present Trinity place hectic trading was con ducted during civil War at William i tween Exchange place and Beaver St shortly after this move the name curb came into general t the Exchange can take a Sharp Rise in trading volume in its but in the trading on Broad caused brokers to overflow Wall and Block finally deciding at was too big to stay ice new York Citty Market moved into its first building june after three quarters of a Century on the curb bomb found near Cologne Cathedral this 500pound defused British wartime bomb is being raised from Crater near the Cologne Cathedral after demolition Crews and police and firemen spent two boors moving thrill9 killer Nathan Leopold May win parole 6 up Nathan sentenced 28 years ago to life imprisonment for the thrill murder of a 14yearold May win his Freedom in the 48yearold described by prison authorities As a Model automatically comes up for a parole his Case will be considered by he fireman Illinois parole Board during a series of hearings at Joliet stale prison beginning decision int Likely until the end of the Leopold and Richard Loeb were sentenced to use and 99year terms judge John Caverly in or kidnapping and killing Young Bobby Franks in what they planned As the perfect Caverly said it was his Hope they would never be admitted to in cases of such atrocious crimes it is entirely within the discretion of the department of Public safety never to admit these defendants to the judge sentence eased but the parole Board later ruled thai the state parole Law applied to Leopold just As to any other prisoner could be freed on parole when he served 20 years of the life term and on third of the 99year that meant but three years Adlai acting on the unanimous recommendation of the state Pardon Cut Leopolds 99year sentence to 85 so Leopold could be freed when he finished 28 years and four months in Leopold and who was stabbed to death in were philosophy students at the univer sity of Chicago when they decided to commit the perfect they selected Franks at killed him with a chisel and stuffed his body a sent a Hote demanding in Ransom from the boys the two were caught when police traced a pair of glasses Leopold dropped at the scene of the their sensational trial was tagged the Legal Battle of the million since both defendants and their victim were sons of Chicago defense attorney Clar ence the famed criminal was credited with saving the youths from death wounded pfc would rather stay with pals by Frederick pain on with 1st s wounded Rifleman wrote in trying to thank the men who stood by him in and ask their his letter still carried the charged emotions of he had fully expected to but his friends dragged him Back Hal dead from no mans he was not afraid loved if anyone about the morale of american troops in the answer lies in this it was written from a Hospital in Japan by pfc Howard Daven of and addressed to the Brave men of the second every Man in the platoon read handing it silently to his neighbor when he these Are excerpts from Daven ports letter at last in getting off an overdue it had to be addressed to someone so i thought of who could read my so it is addressed to you Sambo Cpl George of with the feeling for All who read i have done a lot of thinking about the night As to How i was its a at the very least three of them came toward me to my front and some were coming from my left and i knew they were going to get so i was going to wait until those three got right up on me and then open hit by grenades they were on top of i raised on my Elbow w fire and then i remember seeing flashes from their guns and All around and at the same they must have thrown a hand grenade in my face because i was hit with the grenade and burp gnat the same in Lucky to be i lost lot of blood and even got More blood i still have but should be Over it the doctor said i was More than Likely to spend eight months in hospitals with More i was Wor ried about my eyes but they i dont have words to say what i want to i dont know How to thank you Brave what a Job you Guys did of bringing me out of there that night when i was hit and Smalley sgt Lloyd of new York City came after some one got one of the chinks that got but Willie pfc Jimmy Ray of you or anyone would i that what a great team we i would rather change places and be Back with you Guys thai be like i am sounds crazy when i will be going Back to the United states in the near but my heart is with you Guys i want to come can still Cut