TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. March 21, 1950
Red Threat Brake For German
Resentment of U.S. Occupation
By LyU C. Wilton
United Prn Correspondent
Frankfurt, Germany, Mar. 21
(U.R) It has t a k e n western
Germany nearly five years to
recover from the shell shock of
military disaster and to begin to
challenge occupying forces with
words and occasional 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 east.
The German of five years ago
was punch drunk with disaster
and distress.
In the weeks after the war
ended, cocky GI's commandeered
cameras, motorcycles and other
loot which suited their fancies.
The phrase was that they were
"liberating" these articles.
No GI or American civilian
would dare do such a thing to
day. Didn't Last Long
The practice, in fact, did not
last long beyond the end of the
war. But now the situation is
more than corrected. It is be
ginning to be reversed.
There is scattered evidence
here that many Germans are
sufficiently fed up with occupa
tion to attempt occasionally to
do something about it. Liquor
often is a contributing cause,
The most powerful brake
gainst German resentment of
the American occupation no
doubt is the Russian threat to
the cast. At the worst the Amer
icans. British and French of
western Germany are preferable
to the police state which the bo-
viet union hopes to extend over
the 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 administration live neigh
bor-like and desperately afraid
next door to the awesome Rus
sians. Incidents Turn Up
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 symp
toms of German hatred or dislike
of the occupying foreigner are
limited to the occupied zones of
western Germany.
The military police office said
today that there had been no
increase in the number of in
cidents in recent months. But an
officer added:
"The Germans are becoming
a little more aggressive.
A colonel of intelligence told
me in a nearby military estab
lishment that he and other Amer
icans disliked driving over Ger
man roads for fear of deliberate
smashups. These can be achieved
by German truck drivers with
out much danger to themselves.
German truckers haul three
loaded trailers. Even momentar
ily careless driving can cause
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to weave, causing the rear trail
er to sway several feet from
side to side while moving for
ward at high speed. The colonel
said the chance was always pres
ent that a German trucker would
deliberately sideswipe a foreign
car. There are many such, eas
ily identifiable because of their
size.
Not Much Evidence
I do not find much supporting
evidence tor the 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
icii ano ngnt twice. The last
of his three trailers whiplashed
against the American jeep. The
GI was killed, Witnesses said it
was deliberate. The colonel said
other attempts had been made.
The Germans have a record of
prewar street violence. The nazi
gangs were street fighters first
and politicians afterward. Im
plements of street violence are
freely on sale in some German
cities.
Stuttgart sports shop windows
display rubber billies, spiked
prass Knuckles and a vicious in
strument 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-
eights of an inch at the tip.
it is an easily concealed, pli
able', wire billy designed not
only to slash jagged wounds in
the face or neck but to crush a
skull.
I bought a wire billy and
spiked knucks for the German
equivalent of 40 cents each.
Automobiles speeding today on
the through roads which Hitler
built have been fired on occa
sionally. Walter C. Rundle,
United Press manager in Ger
many, was strolling with his
wife near their home at night a
few weeks ago. A group of Ger
mans on a balcony three stories
above threw a bottle which
missed the Rundles but spattered
them with glass slivers. German
police virtually sabotaged in
vestigation of the incident.
American military police arc not
permitted to enter a German
house.
Violence against foreigners
usually does 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, es
corted him to a nearby dark
areaway and soon began scream
ing rape!
The crowd which collected at
tempted to beat up the GI. A
German was killed in the en
suing brawl. Marburg citizens
thereupon 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
civilians from their premises.
American authorities rejected
their requests.
Restaurant owners did not at
tempt to conceal their strategy.
They explained that many Ger
mans were prosperous again
and wanted to spend their money
where they would not have to
elbow for space with the occu
pying foreigners.
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Hollywood, Mar. 21 (U.R)-
Sultry sirens and fancy gigolos
are losing their grip as movie
menaces. Hol
lywood's dis
covered a new
villian a
baby in the
love seat.
Guaranteed
say the folks
who're tired of
husband vs
wive - vs. - sec
retary plots, to
raise all kinds
of devilment
with the hero
and heroine.
The woman behind this start
ling twist on the age-old tri
angle is Jean Rouverol. There
aren't many writers around who
would dare be so irreverent
about a blessed event, but Miss
Rouverol's long since lost that
starry-eyed attitude. She has
four of 'em tearing around the
house.
"They're wonderful," she said.
"They also create a problem no
body's touched on the screen.
There's plenty of conflict in the
idea of a new baby. It starts
fights ... it leaves the husband
feeling neglected ... it even
leads to divorce.
"All this is a natural for a
movie. And I get every mother
and father in the audience will
agree with me."
Miss Rouverol is one of those
rare things around Hollywood:
an actress who turned writer.
Nothing Left
"Had to," she said. "After
four kids wasn't anything left
of my figger."
She comes by her writing nat
urally, though. Her mother,
Playwright Aurania Rouverol.
dreamed up the "Andy Hardy"
scries.
"I'm still a radio actress," Miss
Rouverol added. 'I play Betty on
"One Man's Family.' And I
blame that show for my last
couple of kids. I hadn't planned
'cm but Betty kept getting in
the family way in the script and
darned if I didn't follow
through."
Miss Rouverol's movie might
start a whole new cycle of vil-
boxes of Frankfurt Germans last
week was a new Gcrmon wehr
wolf or "fighting wolf" procla
mation. The wehrwolf organi
zation bloomed briclly as the
war ended as an underground
German resistance movement.
The handbill circulated here
said:
"German people, we call you.
Be on the alert. The wehrwolf
lives again, becoming stronger
every day. Our battle moves on.
We battle for Germany. Amer
icans, Englishmen, Frenchmen,
Russians, we warn you,"
Youngsters In Act
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
pounce upon them, tear their
clothing, push them around a bit
and if they can gel away with
it. take their playthings.
None of this suggests that
western Germany would wel
come American withdrawal right
now. There is too much fear of
the Russians for that. But re
sentment against the occupation
is growing, and anti-foreign vio
lence is likely to increase with
it. Even though onlv a minority
of Germans are responsible for
It, the violence is no less dan
grrnus or deadly.
lains. It'll also give a lot of cast
ing directors ulcers.
Have To Hire Six ;
For grown-up menaces one act
or or actress'll do. When you
start working with the diaper set
you have to hire at least six.
"The plot goes through the
baby's first year," she explained.
"So we'll need a new born baby,
a four-mouths older, one at the
sitting-up stage, the crawling
stage, a walker and a talker."
Word of this has sifted around
town. All her friends and
people she never even heard of
are already pestering her for
screen tests for their offspring.
Rogue River
Rogue River, Mar. 21 The
potluck family supper was
served to a record crowd of 65
persons last Wednesday evening
in Fellowship hall. One of the
many desserts served was a large
decorated cake bearing Easter
greetings which was brought by
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kilbourne
and family of Central Point, who
were special guests of the eve
ning. Two piano solos were
played by Mrs. Barns and the
high school trio sang. Following
the devotional, led by Barbara
Feuerhelm, Kara Lee Irwin and
Laralee Morris, Mrs. William
Speers sang. By special request
Annie Laurie Kilbourne and Mrs.
Lewis Kilbourne favored with
two piano duets.
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Strahan re
turned Friday from a week's
visit at San Francisco and Mo
desto, Cal.
Postmasters of Jackson and
Josephine counties held their
quarterly meeting and banquet
rnday evening at the Live Oak
Grange hall in Rogue River.
Speakers of the evening were
Col. C. L. Williams, retired post
al inspector, and Postmaster
Massey of Grants Pass. Special
greetings were extended to Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Hargitt, it being
the date of their 29th wedding
anniversary and also their son,
Harold Hargitt's 25th birthday.
The tables were decorated in the
St. Patrick's day motif combined
with spring flowers. Special sou
venirs for the occasion were
pieces of hand-made wooden
monev cut from limbs of the old
maple trees which were planted
on Main street in Woodville
days. Each piece bore the three
names -of the town, Tailholt,
Woodville and Rogue River, with
the dates 1850 and 1950. They
were made by Grange members
as a special tribute to Harold
Laws, postmaster of Rogue Riv
er, whose parents were pioneers
of the community.
George Murray of the whistle
factory at Eureka. Cal., was a
guest at the A. G. Sheppard home
on West Evans creek last week.
Murray has been manufacturing
redwood novelties for the past
four years and designing and
setting aside models of wooden
toys to add to his line. Previ
ously the output of the little fac
tory has been sold through other
dealers, but when Murray, with
the help of his wife, Flora, and a
neighbor, was unable to keep up
with the demand, he decided to
contact retail stores up and down
the west coast and sell direct
to them, and also contact custo
mers and learn their reactions
to his new line of toys.
He reports he was verv en
couraged by the large orders he
received for toys and for spe
cial Oregon souvenirs such as
the "Came Man's Love Call"
club. Murray was accompanied
on the trip by Dorothy Sheppard,
popular Girl scout leader of Eu
reka, who helped demonstrate
the toys.
Barbara Black, dauehter of
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Black of
Pine street, returned home Sat
urday from Oregon State col
lege. Other students home from
the spring vacation are Raymond
Frantz of Foots Creek and Bill
Blair of Wimer.
Mrs. Earl Hazen of hiehwav
99, left last week on a combined
business and pleasure triD to
Los Angeles.
I he Al Pearson ranch home on
West Evans creek was the scene
of a surprise party Friday eve
ning wnen triends and neighbors
quietly gathered to celebrate
Mrs. Pearson's birthday. Mrs. Al
Ebeling as hostess and instigator
of the party, baked four large
cakes which were served with
ice cream. Canasta was played
throughout the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Black of
West Evans creek are moving to
Long Beach where he will con
tinue in his former business.
New emblems were presented
the Rogue River Pistol club last
Thursday evening. They were
made by Le Rae Dennis, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dennis.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Camo-
bell, cattle ranchers of Bly, Ore.,
were visitors of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Hess at Trailerland, over
the week-end.
Rogue River businessmen met
Thursday evening at the Rogue
Riviera on highway 99. Bob Gail
was elected vice-president of the
organization by unanimous vote.
Mayor and Mrs. Fred Denglar
were special guests and Mayor
Denglar suggested a paint-up and
clean-up campaign in Rogue Riv
er before the tourist season. The
public relations board reported
they will contact Mel Price, pub
lisher of the Rogue River Record,
regarding advisability of start
ing a local newspaper. Inquiry
on the matter was made by a
former west coast newspaper
man. "We merchants of Rogue
River do not believe In high
gretaU'e salesmanship," stated
ave Gelvin. "We want to give
everyone inquiring about our
community the exact facts."
Wooden toys and novelties
were displayed by George Mur
ray of Eureka, who uses tree
limbs and scrap plywood to con
struct attractive articles.
William Morton, consulting
engineer, now at Cave Junction,
offered a suggestion regarding
an industry that would have a
good payroll. Robert Worrell,
who is experienced in city plan
ning, offered his services to the
city.
On suggestion of Bob Gail It
was decided to request a blinker
light be installed at Rogue Riv
er junction to lessen the traf
fic hazard at that end of the
bridge. Special notice was called
to the trailer which R. W. Ran
dleman has patented and to the
models displayed at the Carl
Meyers store. Date of the next
meeting will be announced later.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Friedenthal
have returned from Eugene
where they attended the ball
game and visited Ed's sister. They
report they saw many Grants
Pass people at the game.
The Rev. D. F. Barnett is re
covering from an attack of acute
indigestion. He was quite ill over
the week-end and Sunday serv
ices were -conducted by Jeff Irwin.
JUST NORTHERN LIGHTS
Sandpoint, Ida. (U.R) The
North Idaho Rural Electric Re
habilitation association had a
title that was quite a mouthful.
Now it's known as Northern
Lights, Inc.
BUS KIDNAPS AUTO
Bobton (U.R) A bus "stole"
an automobile here. During a
snowstorm, William Orphanos
parked his new car in the street.
When he returned a half hour
later it was gone. A bus had lock
ed bumpers with the automobile
and carried it several blocks,
where the car was found undamaged.
Atlanta, Ga. (U.R) A young
woman who showed up at Grady
hospital with a fractured thumb
blamed it on "shaking hands
with an ex-husband."
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