Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 268, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1944 Page: 3 of 4
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#" WASHINGTON—"Achtung!
nund of men moving. Then silence.
Qu^ little procession
They're Not
At Army*
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Columnist
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Our Uttle procession of three Americans led for Maj. William T.
Qleasan In command of the Qermanwa* prisoners camp at
JpickettiMgMnt down the Hle of the email wooden chapel l
At the little wooden altar, inlaid with carvings of sacred symbols
id surmounted by a arose, lye paused a momenta Then gtcppad
Writer
inspects
A Camp
ii
rp
inside the room behind the altar. Here three M. P.
W.'s, as the war prisoners are called at p. 8- camps,
were at work with saw and chisels making a table
loners from
CM^BINQ OUT of the cockpit of his shattered plane. Knsij'n R. Black (arrow), Brifiham, Utah, is i
what the navy desenbed as one of the most 'rcniurknblc landings of the war. Shot up over Patau
! st raid, JiJiick was coming >n with his hydraulic system gijjiie, a large hole in the rjight wing, flaps use-
Ills ailerons smashed. Suddenly lie slipped sideways and sheared oft the tail oX his plane and one
a gun turret. He landed uninjured as rtmuers approached. Navy photo. (International),
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Ji SYNOPSIS
Having helped Colin/Rae, of the
: HtnttHVs Bey Company, to escape
' is pursuers at Winnipeg,
lei Irina Meredith is en-
to meet her elderly fiance,
Selkirk, eti Learmonth.
eveetigetingfthe activities
If frail, ndld mannered
ove, head<of two Indian
I • power among trap-
per*. "Once I heardfbim called the
in Canada."
Irina.
Win.
i By north in
, owned and Mown by
[^rnnrit, former schoolgirl
l«( Colin. Heavy snow forces
m make an emergency landing
" rs Lake1 where the vet-
Gunn shelters the trio,
questions Blair about her
r; also Den, and Naje Ten
"nmb Indians call "Woman
p. Neat morning. Alec and
I, start on foot for Learmonth,
Colin .soon following.
Learmonth, Colin is plunged
"eep thought- at the sight of
h school buildings.
CHAPTER i SE V E N
t have Iwaa watching with
I tafymtaeas, for he started
h«'heard the girl's voice at his
; are tho*e*4w lldinr ?*
f "Ha new Indian school. They
«ew*oilt after I Ut." .
pktiu oil"nis ftfm. vW \
f he
lie
' imilm '.ii1!,'!!,
ElwJPISir*
fro* CU biting
compile of dry
• 4k,* J|. '
* tired,"
«lii| !rt'1
he smiled.
was
lam
'ml* Incre
~ of what!*
_ ilng Rodney."
Btft you've seen Mm many
Nqt many, really. The first time
Europe when She visited my
I was twelve, .and I can still
ucpsbjur1
id ppg&jwd taught mc
men
■2R!ftE££
for n week or ten day*.
,'t mUy Jowwr.Wm—not
• , J Jjj,. I MM-
"ifd nothtol. tat trim
his tiougbL ^You're wen*
T£ople could fall in
saw each other onee
„ Aa fcttWRod Iscen-
think he must have loved
••years. There's
*W<^frfthatlltUe
v$nt to hun
M#.#
e wnttln
ate
Of (h em.
mstara
IS bring
head. "B«.licve mo when I Ray I
want to bring no one sorrow, i've
lived too intimately with pain my-
self." Rising, she cunu' close to liim.
"Don't distrust m<\ Colin, and don't
eapect too much from me. And don't
forget that the hours ahead may not
be easy."
Irina led the way down the trail.
Yes, she was frightened.
And Colin marveled that this girl
who bad confronted him in her
room, who had sat unmoved while
they ripped the pontoon in landing,
could be unnerved nt the prospect
of seeing the man she was about to
marry.
But why had Selkirk never
spoken of one whose picture stood
for so many years on his desk?
Well, that was Rod's way; Inti-
mately as Colin had known him,
there were long gaps in h:« life that
Colin himself never understood. All
that was really known was that
years ago he had appeared in Lear-
UncomfortaMe, Wishing himself
elsewhere, Colin stood aside, know-
ing himself to be wholly forgotten
in thut moment of meeting. Then
Selkirk spoke the single word,
"Irina!" '
She stretched out both hands, and
as Selkirk took them she said.
"I'lease kiss me, Rodney."
Twice he kissed her, then held
her bark from him, and his eyes
would not leave her
"You're —you're -
trembled, and to
out of wood cut by other war prisoners
camp forest.
; I should have said the P. W.'s HAD been at work.
iFor the second they had heard our American voices as we entered
.the: chapel they
!ordered:
"Achtumrt Achmnaffi.all™ 7
'•Here's the confessional." Major Gleason was lifting the curtain,
hanging before a three-sided cubicle. "We use that on Saturdays!
when the priest cornea We have a Catholic and Protestant ohtyMh
,service eve# Sunday." ' •
< The p. w.'s hid gone back to their tasks after their salute to the
i major. We watched them for a second as they fashioned Way and
{applied it to plain surfaces. Then: ,
"Now I'll show you the stable the boys built for me," Colonel
qicason said. "They did a swell job, too. It's clcaner than a couple-
of whistlea They did me some fancy work on the stalls beside.
And my horses are shined up fit for a horse show."
Across the P, W. camp street, where the soldiers live in barracks
like those used by soldiers at any V. 8. A. base camp, we followed
the big commanding major who is the perfect and complete picture
of a top "notvcom" who knows his men, encourages their good qual-;
ities, accepts their failings and means to have obedience always.'
He'a made to order for Hollywood.
"Sure, I get work out of the men—eight hours a day. But 1 look
after them, too. What else can we do? We've got them here,
haven't wet We give 'em all-they are entitled to under the law..
No moro. No less. Now look at tlfia tool house. Did you ever sea*
better kept axes?"
I said I hadn't, tup had I ever seen more polished hammers, t
Ittmed a little nervously at the prisoners who were standing nearby.
They looked straight ahead. As if no one at all had been in the tool
; house. But I noticed, as we started to leave and our backs were
•turned, that their expressions quickly changed. They stayed curiously
,#fter us. Few visitors were allowed inside the stockade.
< The major talked as we drove on to have a look at his own cottage
just outside the compound- "Well, this is pretty nice, isn't it," ha
said proudly. We stepped Into a freshly-painted sitting room, "Soma
Pi-iday, May 20, 1944
IT Rei'jtertd l>. $. patent (Mfie#
NBWT, WHEN YOU
BET FIVE COLLARS
HE COUL&MT STAY
ON TWICE AROUNO
th' block you fi;'1
FOIBGOTHESBEEM
RIWN<& AtJEEP//
INTHE JL N<3LES
FOR TWO YEARS
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TME MAR/NET HAS
SITUATION IN MAfSC>
PBKSBi
eORVmetiT. tMt. kino mtvites synbicate tw wohun rights ■teasRVKo'V S-fiO
't'
of my hoys are getting ready to wire the place for me so I can hava
ip lUtt, llotifr n nlaht-."
His
bridge that
mont of weakness she asked.'
>!
vole*
mo-
Have
1 changed in eight months?"
"You're lovely. So lovely, I-
simply don't know what to say.'
Over her shoulder his eyes met
Rae'si. "Colin, my lioyl" Instantly
the strain vew broken. Selkirk's
voice was mere robust now; he t
squared his spare shoulders, and
Colin felt the firm grasp of his
hand.-'. "It's good to have you back.
But come in, come in, both of you—
fa little light at night.'
, War prisoners according to the rules of the Geneva conference
ean be used for any labor not connected with the war effort. 4 gang
?o# the Fort Pickett prisoners was clfanlng out a swamp down the
way a little piece. Here there seemed to be more, prisoners about
than at Fort Lee. Major Gleason appeared a fierce disciplinarian,
yet I had a feeling tlfet the rules of Lee camp, aa administered by
;unassumtng Colonel Molsan, were more rigid than at Pickett.' Mili-
tary roles may take on a different, interpretation
under the direction of different personalities.
"Often representatives come down from the Swiss
legation to look us over," Major Gleason wa* saying.
"The Swiss are the neutrals who check up on our
orison camps here and on German camps abroad." ,
There if a general belief that the U. S. soldiers are being treated
fairly in the prison camps in Germany. The food in German prison,
eampemay not be as good but it is required by general agreement'
that it have the same value a« food served the men in the German it
army. The German palate is different from the American palate.: |
For example, the German prisoners at Fort Pickett look forward to
Sunday and a special treat of bologna. Few Americans cravo
bologna or sauerkraut cither. j
In Korea, according to an
tt«U. contrast- bridge is played
with the players seated on the
floor. Unless he. is double.]
Joined, SladoH Dutnkopf won-1
ders how a player pan kick his '
partner's shins. ^ ^
'• 1 frar •r. ®76W,( ■" "7— •" r*.1" ^ ^
banned, the midday siest* fie
o| our oSe* thinks some-
ffotdd A# done here about
'htat-Uem-ter-lunoh club.
til ■ •
4MUo sayi Mj#ches mqy,
come from ISO different causes..^
Aboi|i 145 of'em, thinks Jockey lit
Jehnp are Hot tip* that run last.
Keep Chuck 1
On Cqmp«
' ANOTHER WARD PLANT SEIZED
l%' ' , . . ,> r
m
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think I'm afraid of seeing Rodney," Irina said.
Johann Lippersheini, a Dutch
optician, set lenses of his mvr
griniling into a tube for viewiiij?
distant objects and may hnv*
himlohed Galileo with the idea.
Ot the telescope.
• • •
Herring depoait from 20,000 t*>
40,000 eggs when spawning, in
to about 400,000 pro-
duced by the mackerel and ui -
wards of 3,000,000 by the cod.
• • •
The V. 8. national average lit-
?LA *** P«5e«««p car# m
mo was about 22,000 mtlea
[ Yo
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You're Telling Me! :
By muuM nrrr—<
Central Press Writer
A NEWLY DEVELO?BD
! soap, we read, will lather freely
even In salt water. In other
words, a bather actually will ha
able to bathe.
tit
Aa ant, according to Fsefo-'
traphs. bas five noses. No won* I
4tr it ean locate the picnic,
grounds almost aa soon at do
the picnickers. ,
r„ ■ TiliiTrff Tl*
lr beloved Doci^r!
ADMIRAL Iford Louis Motmtbat-
ten, commander, of, tha Allied
■forces in southeast Asia, ts pic-
tured here in his latest photo-
graph made aboard « ^ 8, air-
craft carrier which ho visited W||
lowing an; Allied fald on Saban,;
recently. Lo?d Mountbatten •
«howtt|peah§^ver, tbo ship'.!
lii.dspeaker. , - (Jut^auonal)
FEDERAL GOVSRNMINT is opcrat-'
i«S a seized plant of tha Mont-,
gomery Wnr.l & Co. for the see*;
on 1 time uitliin n month. The'
plant is the strike-bound Hummer.
Manufacturing company .at}
Springfield, • lit., which produces'
yital parts for tighter and bomber-
pi.mcs. The plant was token over:
hy the Army on orders from Pres. i
irtent Roosevel- after approxi-l
niately 430 members of the Intep-
nationvil Association of Machinists
(A. F, oC L.) had been cut 16 days, i
Lieut. Col. Nelson Talbott of the,
Army Air Corps, shown in photo'
at left, formally and quietly tooki
over thn AlontRomcry & Ward'
. subsidiary. Two weeks aj?o, when'
MS® li,:;; use was
. Cl air-
Rovernment's,'
tctnational)
FIGHTING ENDS IN
month, a quiet, youngish man and,
through untiring loyalty to the
company, rose to be chief factor of
the best fur district in northern
Canada..
Down in Winnipeg, where Sel-
kirk was often called to give coun-
sel On matters of policy, he became
a tower of strength because of the
toning trust the trappers—
and white— placed in his
honesty and fair dealing. Rod Sel-
kirk had done more to build up good
will in the fur trade than any factor
in the history of the company. .
Engrossed in such thoughts,
Colin saw with surprise that they
were near the trading post. On the
hill just ahead rose a tough rec-
tangle of log buildings frow
.Ikirit-. ban,a-
break into a run, for in the doorway
of the bungalow a familiar figure
tothailri. "You BO nh,«d.M
•ina stepped forward through
fht sunlight, with an awk-
.. iMjimw-. c p from nis dmo
Slight, delicate of frame and
small mustaene grlzslea, and the
' at "Iwajlafimed n HtUe
,;9So fixed with a kind of
eager hunger on the face of the girt.
I keep you standing out here In the
wet."
into the long library he led them,
a room heaped high With books and
bright with many windows. Colin
looked about him—the same table,
the green reading lamp, and the
two white skins of timber-wolves
on the floor.
Selkirk laid Irinn's coat across 4
chair. "I've a million questions to
ask you both, but they can wait"
Again his eyes rose to Irinn's face.
"You're tired," he exclaimed.
She gave a little laugh, and het
hand reached out to tha back of a
chair. "I o« tired. ThisbigffSnS
of yours has walked me off my feat."
"Of course you're tired." Selkirk ,
threw open a door. "Lie down in !
"No wonder she's ag in.'' Srikl
drew up a chair. "Slate told me
about your trip." H reached for
cigar, then impulsivily
fort to conceal vibraf
tor's voiee.
dHldn't yon ever tell me abou
.Who Is 8hst' . ■ ■ , v:
(To be eontlntjed), iSij
Coomiht b TomOllIi Sf,™
DtiUtbnlKl by Bint VnUnu SrndlaU, Uk
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VmltHfUl are these Nazi soldiers taken prisoners by the Allied forces in the first day's
ilhg of the current big push In Italy. The important city of Cassliio was wrested from the Ger-
,s in this drive in which hundreds of Axis prisoners have been taken, Those above were photo-
phed While waiting for transportation to prlsoner-of-war enoloaurfes. (Internationa!)
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