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PAGE EIGHT THE BEND. BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1950 Western Germany Resentful Over American Occupation By I.ylo C. Wilson I other attempts lititl been made. (Unituj' rmu stair Currmn ii-nti Tlie Germans have a record of Frankfurt, -Germany, March 20 j prewar street violence. The nuzi ; li'i It has taken western tier-1 gang's were street uymeis msi OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams many nearly five years to recover from the shell shock of military disaster and to begin to challenge occupying forces with words and occasiona' violence. It was In May, 1945, that Hit ler's third reich collapsed" under attack of the allies in the west and the Russians in the cast. The German of five years aj;o was punch drunk with disaster and distress. In the weeks after the war end ed, cocky CI's commandeered cameras, motorcycles and other loot wjich ,:jitcd their fancies. The phrase was that they were "liberating" these articles. No GI or American civilian would dare do such a thing to ilav. The practice, in fact, did not !apt long beyond the end of the war. But now the situation is more than corrected. It Is begin ning to be reversed. KuknIoiih Feared There is scattered evidence hero that many Germans are suffi ciently fed up with occupation to attemot occasionally to do some thing about it. Liquor often Is a contributing cause. The most powerful brake auainst German resentment of the American occupation no doubt is the Russian threat to the cast. At the worst the Americans, Bri tish and French of western Ger many are preferable to the police state which the soviet union hopes to extend over tlte entire country. There is little or no open re sentment in the occupied sectors of Berlin where free Germans under French, British and Amer ican administratis live neighbor like and desperately afraid next door to. the awesome Russians. But incidents of violence, threats of violence and spoken challenges to the occupation do turn up in the west, suggesting a trend and perhaps a pattern. It is notable that these symptoms of German hatred or dislike of the occupying foreigner are lim ited to the occupied zones of west ern Germany. Mora Aggressive The milftary police office said today that there had been no in crease in the number of incidents in recent months. But an officer added: "The Germans are becoming a little more aggressive." A colonel of intelligence told me in a nearby militarv establish: ment that he and other Ameri cans disliked driving over Ger man roads for fear of deliberate smashups. These can be achieved by German truck drivers without much danger to themselves. German truckers haul three loaded trailers. Even momentar ily careless driving can cause those links of fast moving freight to weave, causing the rear trailer to sway several feet from side to side while moving forward at high speed. The colonel said the chance was always present that a German trucker would deliber ately sideswipe a foreign car. There are many such, easily iden tifiable because u their size. One Death I do not find much supporting evidence for th? colonel's fears. Yet some months ago an Ameri can GI attempted to pass a truck train near Wiesbaden. The truck er swung his front end sharply left and right twice. The last of his three trailers whiplashed against the American jeep. The GI was killed. Witnesses said It was deliberate. The colonel said and politicians afterward. Imple menls of street violence are free ly on sale In some German cities. ' Stuttgart sports show windows display rubber billies, spiked brass knuckles and a vicious in sirument made of steel wire. This little dandy is collapsible. It has a butt fitting the hand. One end of the weighted butt holds two steel wire coils meas uring in diameter from half an inch at the butt to about three eighths of an inch at the tip. It is an easily concealed, pli able wire billy designed not only to slash jaggod wounds in the face or neck, but to crush a skull. Spcciman Bought I bought a wire billy and fpiked knueks for the German equiva lent of 40 cents each. Automobiles speeding today on the through roads which Hitler built have been fired on occas ionally. Walter G. Rundle, Unit ed Press manager in Germany, was strolling with his wife near their home at night a few weeks ago. A group of Germans on a balcony three stories above threw a bottle which missed the Run dies but spattered them wiih glass slivers. German police virtually sabotaged investigation of the in cident. American military police are not permitted to enter a Ger man house. Violence against foreigners us ually docs not seem to be planned in advance. There was an incident recently at Marburg in which a known prostitute picked up a 19-year-old GI, escorted him to a nearby dark areaway and soon began screaming "rape!" The crowd- which collected at tempted to beat up the GI. A German was killed in the ensuing brawl. Marburg citizens thereup on staged two big anti-American demonstrations. Many German restaurant own ers in and about Frankfurt and Stuttgart have asked permission to bar American soldiers and ci vilians from their premises. Amer ican authorities rejected their requests. strategy Obvious Restaurant owners did not at tempt to conceal their strategy. They explained that many Ger-1 mans were prosperous again and I wanted to spend their money : where they would not have to el bow for space with the occupying foreigners. Widely distributed In the mail boxes of Frankfurt Germans last week was a new German wehr wolf or "fighting wolf" proclama tion. The wehrwolf organization bloomed briefly as the war ended i as an undeground German resist- j ance movement. The handbill cir- culatod here said: i "German people, we call you. i Be on the alert. The wehrwolf j lives again, becoming stronger ev ery day. Our battle moves on. Wei battle for Germany. Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Rus sians, we warn you." The young fry are getting Into the act. In almost any German community the American young sters keep much to themselves. German youngsters, sometimes operating in packs, occasionally j pounce upon tnem, tear th?ir clothing, push them around a bit and if they can get away with it, take their playthings. None of this suggests that west ern Germany would welcome American withdrawal right now. There is too much fear of the Russians for that. But resentment against the occupation is grow ing, and nnti-foreipn violence is likely to increase with it. Even whV. CfcRTAINLY-- they All mave children).' amd amv that have only girls, i'd like them to tCNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE BOYS.' I -60 10MV 7 1 ROOM LlkE 1 ri liTiii TiCT-, THROUGH I f 1 Wrv- ( I I.I I : fa i X I T t MO LI 1 tCi 1M. ,1 HI U.HI IWC ' iraDES ARE MAPE-MOT BORM 3-21 Traffic Hazard On Highway 28 Cause for Action Prineville, March 20 In an ef fort to improve traffic conditions on U. S. highway 28 in front of the grade school there, for the protection of pupils, the Powell Butte parent-teacher association and the Powell Butte Farmers club have resorted to a proposed plan of publicizing arrests for speeding through the school safe ty zone. " The farm organization indicat ed that it had been offered to pay the cost of erection and mainten ance of an electric warning sign at the point, but had been unable to obtain cooperation of the state highway department. It was re ported further by the groups that the hazard of speeding automo biles in the school zone had bean reported to state authorities and I that cooperation has been offered J by Sgt. L. L. Hirtzel, of the state police force. -I In a formal statement, the I groups declared that it is useless to give tickets to speeders u tney are allowed to repeat their of fenses without proper dispositions being made of the cases. The or ganizations have proposed to give publicity in newspapers of the area to traffic arrests at the point, and to follow them up with publication of . dispositions made of the charges. , , though only a minority of Ger mans ire responsible for It, the violence is no less dangerous or deadly. VVAItNING SOUNDED ' Los Angeles, March 20 UPi A University of California at Los Angeles doctor says overdoses of the new anti histamine cold rem edies may cause serious illness and even death. Dr. Thomas J. Haley, chief of the division of pharmacology, and toxicology of the UCLA atomic energy project, recommended a doctor's prescription be required for anti-histamine remedies. Haley said relatively small amounts of the drugs might be fatal to small children. Bend Trap Club Has Score of 73 With Len Henderson making the only perfect score, the Bend Trap club turned in an official score of 73, yesterday for the reg istered shoot sponsored by the Oregon Journal. George Krueger and Vic Plath made the 24's. After the first two Sundays of the shoot, the Bend club is un beaten, and tied with four other clubs, with a total of 17 out of a possible 20. Other high scores made in yes. terday's shooting were C. E. Mitchell and M. L. Hunt, 24's, and Lloyd Evans, Walt Howard, Ev erett Rambo and Fred Giltner, 23's. A new trap, added to the club's facilities recently, was in use yes. terday for the first time. The club now has five traps in operation. Officers announced that other improvements are to be made on the range, and requested hat all members be present Saturday af ternoon, March 25, for a work day. .VALUABLES STOLEN Hollywood, March 20 dl'i More than $350,000 in securities, most of it non-negotiable, were stolen frbm the home of philosopher- author Will Durant, it was re ported to police today. The author's wife, Ariel, told investigators that some jewelry also, was taken by yeggs who opened the safe at the Durant home early last night. Value of the jewelry was not determined immediately. Mezzo Soprano ELECTED.. PRESIDENT Madras, March 20 Albert C. Suratt, .local real estate dealer and winner of third place in a regional speaking contest , LelJ last week at Redmond, ha.s been elected 1950 president of the Madras Toastmasters club. Other officers are Everett Van Wert, vice-president; E. Feckes, .secretary-treasurer, and Amis Fine, deputy governor. EXAMINER COMING A drivers license examiner will be in Bend this Friday between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. at 1050 Bond street, it has been announced. Persons wishing licenses or per mits to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled .closing hour In order to assure comple tion of their applications with a minimum of delay. JUST BLIND TRAIL Beatrice, Neb. lPPollce Chief D. W. Church gave up the investi gation of a counterfeit dollar bill after he found that the man who discovered it got- it in his post office salary check and the post office got it from a bank. Mona Pauiee will be presented in concert tonight at 8:30 at the Ochoco grade school audi torium, Prineville. The concert Is the second in the Prineville Community Concert associa tion's current series of three, and an invitation to attend has been extended to members of the Bend concert association. Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results New Miracle Drug Stops Cold Symptoms In a Single Day ANAHIST . 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