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...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...
...investigation of the Eder case uncovered more guilt than Abel's and Fran-key's. Their battalion, the 796th Military Police, has 600 men. More than 100 knew about the kidnaping; 20 of them had been approached by those who wanted Eder kidnaped. None reported the proposition or the kidnaping to U.S. authorities. The 796th has many black-marketeers, some, called the "three-to-two boys," who lend money on a basis of $300 returned for every $200 advanced. Three-quarters of the MPs in the battalion are under 21, and most of them have been subject...
...happy-go-lucky Sergeant John Frankey and his quiet little buddy Corporal Paul Abel were supply noncoms in C Company of the 796th M.P. Battalion. Frankey, 29, came from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers...
...parlance, a "torpedo," i.e., an agent who informed against the Russians. For a while he had also informed the Russians about the West, but the Reds discovered that he took pay from both sides. They decided that he had better be put out of the way. Frankey and Abel accepted the commission. They lured Eder into a borrowed jeep by telling him that he was wanted by U.S. authorities. After Eder had been delivered, the Russians paid off promptly and promised further jobs. Last month, when U.S. counter-intelligence agents broke up a Soviet-run kidnap ring in Vienna, Frankey...
...Walter Abel as Gavin also suffers even more from this typing; he is cast as a representative of southern aristocracy with all the caricature that casting can imply. For some reason Mr. Logan has seen fit to equip this southern gentleman with a set of dice which he rolls intermittently throughout the play, an ineffective attempt at naturalism...