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Alfred E. Smith, late, longtime lover of the sidewalks of New York, was nostalgically remembered by G.I.s when the freighter bearing his name docked at Cherbourg. A burly MP asked if it was the ship containing a flagstone from the sidewalk in front of Al's old East Side home. Told that it was, he climbed aboard, reverently placed his foot on the stone. Next day some 200 New Yorkers in his outfit visited the ship-to see, touch, kiss their native "soil...
...Chungking the spring dawn was milky when an MP on the graveyard shift picked up the ringing phone in U.S. Army Headquarters. At first he heard no voice on the other end; then a San Francisco broadcast coming over the phone line made clear to him why his informant could find no words. A colonel came in. The MP just stared at him. The colonel stared back. After a moment the MP blurted two words. The colonel's jaw dropped; he hesitated; then without a word he walked away...
...military police stopped two women in the village street. The women explained that they were going for a midwife. The MPs went along, just to be certain. They passed an entrance to a salt mine. Said one of the Hausfrauen: "That's where the bullion is hidden." MP ears perked up: How's that again? The woman repeated the gossip she had heard-Germany's gold had been salted away in that mine...
...Roach Canning Co. plant. Buxom Kitty Marie Case, 20, and thin, swarthy, 18-year-old Shirley Jean Druce, who worked there, fretted about it almost as much as did the management. Then a labor gang of German prisoners from the nearby Owosso prison camp arrived under MP guard. The manpower shortage was met-but there were ugly complications. Last week, in the Bay City (Mich.) Federal Court, the Misses Case and Druce were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government by aiding two German war prisoners, Gottfried Hobel and Erit Classen, to escape (maximum penalty: two years in prison). Points...
...says glumly: "Everybody likes me in the daytime but at night I am all alone." MP Rodriguez is a bachelor...