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LONG ODDS ON THE BOOKIES
NEW YORK,
average price of a purc-blooded
ND now the set begins Angus at auction is 910 dollers
Seven thousard seven hundred and six bookies and
1 day, compared 194).
DANCER
"CCMICS"
with 258 in
s:11 are
under
tells
the
other professional gamblers heavy are. Dr Frederic Wer- America - tham, leading New York throughout
the pychiatrist,
Joint small proportion of active total, estimated at Legislative Committee to sudy the publication of comics, that bave put down 17,000
brutality and they encourage
and push their 50 dollars and applied facial haired,
sales of dangerous knives among for official registration.
children. He urges that child under 15 should allowed to read them
But of these applacutions, on!, 1,556 have been given the stam, have of office Another 1,884 bern returned with a request (the for fuller information' bookic must give details of his and partners, runners, agents, place of business).
And 4,206
are still being "studied."
cause Was Consecall n
internal when the Bureau of Revenue un uniced that it is local notifying unsportingly
the names of police forces of
the bookies who are registered.
And those who do not register are twice breaking the law-by fumes down 1ut putting their and by testing to pay ten per-
r of their monthly takings
The Government.
Looks like an unhappy New Year for the boys in the noisy suits.
DISCIPLINE
And
Com-
PANCAKE'S the name. Col.nel Frank Pancake, mandant of the famous Virginia Military Institule at Lexington General (most famous "son" Marshall) was A very angry man, for the 900 cadets, irritated by the undue toughness" of the duty officer, rioted.
flooded the institute they
After
by
leaving all the taps running, packed them Colonel Pancake off on a long "cooling off" route marth.
LOOT
MOTORCYCLE
POLICE
The
no
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Allow me to remind you, Mias Moltraneh, that f Michelangelo had knocked of work every time there woda a trifting power out the Sistine Chapel would never have been Anished "
This Patrol Is A “Harry Lime” Relic
By RITCHIE MCEWEN
VIENNA
All four members of the mobile THE International Patrol unit have equal authority, but
Russia Finances
The New Nazis
W
HO is
BERLIN. Among the millions of Britain and America 09
financing half - Nazi
sympathisers German
the underground throughout Germany the Adencvor. Nazi movement underground is circulating
in Western Ger- many? Who supplies it with thousands of copies of the writings of the maniac, Adolf Hitler, and his pro- paganda henchmen Goeb- bels and Rosenberg? Who is training former Gestapo thugs in partisan warfare and sabotage at Werul- gerode, in the Harz moun- tains?
The answer, as I have
**warmongers," and on the West government of Dr
The "b" told me: "We co-
h3 Hi ter
le- bicpuss
"original" copies of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (printed in Ja Moscow and so cleverly re- parted from the true path of prodiced with all the Nazi National S:cialism.
support his pure Nazi gospel. I cannot tell
By Anthony Terry
unearthed it in Berlin, is printers' marks that
the same in each case-- Soviet Russia.
experts can tell the ference), books by
only
members
but we
thera ага
how many
in
our
فرنا
group or where we meet, but we are no longer a small or- ganisation, and we do not lack funds."
There are dozens of these West German Nazi groups with Berlin offices as "payroll celvers."
-31
To avoid them being closed dif- down if they are discovered by Goeb the police, the
Communists
remain in small groups of between The Kremlin, so indig bels, and Rosenberg's 700 have ordered them fo
anti-Jewish page
race several hundred
and several nant about the "subversive theory volume, "The Myth thousand members ech. and activities of the Western
But the not to amalgamate. of the 20th Century."
Russians have insisted on the powers" in
satellite countries of the East, is Investigators found the celving duplicates of all mem-
bership lists. from Rus- herself spending some books arriving
Tis one of the curiosities the memhe: belonging to the £250,000 a year on financ sin in thousands and being SECURITY MENACE
chooses
are
A fore? Nazi 65 men in Ber
tp
of Vienna, and a reminder the patrol is in takes charge off servicemen's associations a railway station in Berlin's of the times when "Allied all incidents and
the which are springing up in Soviet sector. They
SPECIAL association of Western Germany,
still there. Occupation" had some mean- route to be followed. ing.
For instance, If the Russian
with member sees someone taking a
One of the ringleaders of the I'm is ales in close rough
leaders in the new Nazi underground which Communist
zone. It receivoB operates under the slogan "We Soviet
of 12500 Support Hitler's 1939 pact with "fighting fund Stafin" is a former Nazi counter month for propaganda and
ald needy members of Hitler's for
these espionage
agent who fought
former black-uniformed are British wartime secret agents in associations, which
centration camp guards end on violent ant! Brussels during the war.
their families in West Ger- Western propaganda, are, 1
This man came to Berlin two many. reveal, being chati- months ago, and at once opened nelled into West Germany a harmless looking newsagent- through
"Berlin tobacconist shop in the branch" of these Nazi sector. groups.
shy
about
While High Commis- snapshot of the patrol while in CAFE MEETINGS
at Allied the British rector, he cannot con- sioners wrangle
fiscate the flm himself, but must Council meetings, and East ask the British N.C.O. to do this. and West hurl accusations and denials
The Russians are very "camera THE funds at each other
louchy and are across the table at regular "Russian military installations" carrying fortnightly intervals, the being photographed. A Russian members of the six-year-old soldier is considered "military International Patrol eat and Installation." work together in harmony and friendliness.
The patrol was formed in 1945 to deal with incident
the involving soldiers of four occupation Powers, and in the heyday of Harry Lime it was kept busy, often dealing with a dozen eases & day.
'Pidgin' German
upon
the
can
the U. S
HITLER'S HANDS
con-
KS
in ram they have ben or- dered to inject pro-Sovlet pro- paganda into the 200,000 West German 88 men whose recent- ly-formed "Old Comrades League" le led by forme- General Gille. Gen
The General wears a ring with a big swasti- ka, and is one of the influen ces behind the powerful West Gérman ex-servicemen's 6950- ciations.
the
Backing up their anti- through the Nazi groups Western propaganda Tr
Soviets have started a training course in partisan warfare
former sebotage for
Gestapo officials at Wernigerode, in the Harz mountains.
and
the
On the other hand, if the patrol is called in to deal with an Meelings between mem- obstreperous Russian soldier in bers of the Soviet Zone any of the four sectors, the
Secret Security Russian member deals with the German
I discovered when I visited incident" alone, the other three Police the "SSD-take the shup, the counters are taking no part in the proceedings place in small cafes along unless called
by
stacked with copies of Nazi pro- Berlin's Soviet sector bor- paganda newspapers, cleverly Russian.
der. In the event of An hidden under harmless-looking This arrangement works very alarm being Nowadays, except for an
а given
thrillers and sex novels. and there is rarely any occasional drunken brawl in well. a Gasthaus, or
friction. "Pidgin German" is the meeting can be broken up & traffic
Removing the top layer of international language of the and the participants can be with guns in their hankis stop-accident, there is little else patrol members, but if there is across the Iron Curtain and thrillers i found a full page pic- alfcuity, each Power into safety before even the ture of Hitler's hands holding a ped a speeding car at Buffalo, for the mobile patrols to do any New York, and arrested three except drive slowly and employs a civilian interpreter at West Berlin Police can in- pen and under a facsimile of his
In the gar was 30,000
tervene.
handwriting, with his signature dollars worth of gold and silver solemnly round the city, headquarters to help Jut.
staring at me. 2 The appearance of the Inter- just smuggled over the border. looking very dignified,
ол the Details of how the last symbol of four-Power national Patrol cars
Under a poem called, "The Nazi under- Hands of the
Fuehrer," co-operation in the Third Vienna streets, their occupants widespread
siting bolt upright and aloof, with the four little flags of the ground movement almed at something Hitler had written 30 tions in West Germany, Com- Man city.
Powers Buttering gaily
Western in years ago: the undermining
munist success in indoctrinating them with anti-Western bonnet, nd
is a familiar sight to the fluence in Germany with Smart Turnout
constant
paganda based on Nazi slogans TE- former Nazi slogans and
is becoming a serious security minder of the
occupation. hated
propaganda is being sup- can."
menace, Allied officials belleve. The British members of To the foreign visitor the patrol
is a novelty, and the templation ported by Soviet money,
Politically it 16 an even the patrol hold the lowest to take snapshots with the family have been passed to Bonn's Other thinly-disguised Nazi greater danger-as totalitarian for rank in their own Army of camera is irresistible. But don't new M. I. 5, the "Office for propaganda hooks lying around Soviet form of government ap- any of the four contingents, do it, unless you have a quick the Protection of the Con- knew where to find them in- man nature which likes to fol- customer peals to the side of the Ger-
men
JOKE
IN CHICAGO, where they have the highest tram and bus fares in the United States (Is. 2d. fat), the Transit Authority tried a new "laugh a day" cam- with Jokes printed on backs
uf the tickets.
the Sample:-
Buss: Going anywhere dirner tonight?
Secretary: No, sir, Boss: Well, you'll be pretty hungry tomorrow morning then Drivers, asked to report on the success of these quips, said: "The people seemed to feel worse after they'd the jokes."
SPLIT
read
an "incident." They are all lance-corporals "getaway," or you may drawn from the R.M.P. stationed in Vienna, but they make up for their single stripe by the striking colour of their red cap covera and their impeccable turn- out.
The American members are mostly full corporals and French gendarmerie Spring, Florida, the
THEY are splitting the town of Altamonte
in two-one part white, the sergeants. The Russians--- other black. Mayor John God-dressed in well-cut olive! dard thinks that this will add brown uniforms and jack- greatly to the general harmony"
wear any
because now there will be no boots-do not
more bidding for the coloured rank insignia and like to
on the part of office- vote"
their appear "Incognito," seckers. The town has 210
real Russian Army rank whites and 205 Negro voters,
from being anything Bergeant to full lieutenant.
|PREACHING |
on
become
stitution."
was
"Love and Hope' cannot help us-only Faith and Will Power
where the informed
cluded vitriolic attacks
On the "Social" side scheme results in the families of Nazis being given holidays at reduced prices in the Soviet zone of Germany.
With the growing strength' of the ex-servicemen's associa-
on low a "Fueliner.”
If there's a big job going
give it to a jet
by
HUGH DUNDAS
London.
HO is going to take over when Sir John Slessor steps down from his job as Chief of Each mobile unit of the patrol the Air Staff? THEY MAY BE touch In Texas, but at For: Worth the is made up of one member from members of a congregation got each of the Four Powers, wearing so tired of the "hard preaching"
of the Rev. W, W. Baker that the special metal armband of the it wound up in a free-for-all, in International Patrol on their left which 50 deacons and others arms, and they ride in an open wore Involved. Explained one US. Army Command car equip- of the combi'an's in the police ped with radio, both it and the Edin er: "He hit
'em up car being operated by the and down the back with the American member.
Scriptures, Rand they just couldn't take it."
BROADSIDE...
There is an anxious feel- ing among the men who fly our planes that the whole future of the R.A.F. de- pends on this el ›ice.
Will the new chief be a young Jet Age commander By day there are five of these or one of the old brigade? mobile patrols. One is per There will be despair if the manently on standby" at the International Patrol headquarters choice falls on one of the old
who have THE WELL-INFORMED avia- in the former Austrian Palace of men
played tion-milltary critic of the New Justice, while the others patrol musical chairs with top York. Herald-Tribune, Robb the city, one to each of the four Wilson, writes: "There will be sectors occupied by the British, jobs since 1946. There will no North Atlantic command French, Americans, and Ruslans be excitement if a whiff of
nadei NATO unless
American admiral commands it. This will be the definite position
of the United States Navy, Mr. Churchill's protest notwith- standing"
ANGUS
Taken" In Tum
youth is injected into the service.
air chief WASTE
WATER
At night only three patrols pre on duty-one on standby, one.on The Air Force List published patrol in, the Britlab and Ruzdan Idit April shows that of the 20 sectors, and the third patrols the top men who hold the rank of marshal and mir KING of the American cattle, French and American occupied breeding soetus is our old and parts of the city. raf
marshal there is only one. Whe majestie friend the Aberdeen
the Jet-engine swell of paramu Angus, And you've sues It The four Powers take it in fan springs are rocketino tax to run the International Patrol That man ir Tiger Command 130,809 Aberdeen Angus caive each commanding the patrol"wed
In the the International: District in the CAIAC. Bir Bali Dandryma have beengar hd beary compas with 116 1982 of Things for month at ho ingat the both of the let
·818'JOHN ́SLEISÖR PORT Woowed him i
man
no-
That is the way that the old men want it. They shun the proximity of youth.
How different it is in the
ferred to flying in the Kaiser's US. Air Force. There they be-
war,
lieve in young men for a young man's job. There brilliance and courage and personality pay off.
Behind them one step dojyn among the 46. Vice-marshals of the General Duties Branch,
* General Hoyt Vandenberg, the a discerning eye can pick out only a dozen or so who made Chief of US. Air Staff for the their names es operational past three years is only 57. But
he talks of retiring. commandera.
You must go lower still to find 5 the real fighters and leaders, tempered and proved in the Bre Two men who are tipped to of battle. From among the air- mucceed him are General Latiria commodores and more parties- Norsted and General Curtis le larly, from the group-captalus. May both big men with big and wing-cominanders you could jobs at the age of 44. They skim off the cream of the R.AT. know the smell of paraffin all -
of
£00.
There, cooped in by barriers right-and the smell of cordite
youta and seniority sre many officers who serve today Men like these were picked in lower ranks than they held out early on in their careers. as active fighters eight years No waiting around for them, B20, Yell than, surely, are the no Pentagon, reports of "insuffi- men who should be at the top, clent experience": no demotion after a good job well and bravely done.
Lit not be the same Instead of going up they have in the 7 If Sir John gone down and are held down. Stambrog the new Ar When the Aghting was over Minister Lord De L'Isle and they were thanked and ordered Dudley-himself young fight- to make way for those whom ing man has a great chance to they had passed when the race rescue the service from sonile was.on.
decay
་
There is no need to boot out
Many men war heroes used to call them have done the old brigade. There are everything necessary to quality plenty of useful jobs for them for high command. But the Air But here to a chance, to break Ministry, rejects any suggWELICES.
whom the smell of cordite i TAN anything, but on distant, memory, of long-lost youth:30 un
ALL
that they might be promoted at up their game of musical chalem, to the positions they held chance to prevent many bril.
·Hant young officers from leaving the Bervice in disgust, Back from Whitehall comes Andist in what the Jet Ags All the red are in their late the versatmalatex men will do 11 18 mardipopulatio
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