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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, September 15, 1944

Why 52 Foreigners Went to Town

"David Zagier, born in Poland
sibly because the investigator or," the Federal examiner's even
found him to be as yet unfit for voice read out the petition of in 1919, citizen of the Union of
South Africa, resident in the
American citizenship. Fritz Kuh the first of the 52.
"Petition granted," fell Judge United States since 1940, at pres-
and Roth
A GI by name of Erickson, a
was there, the only one of the
Fort Riley, Kas., corporal, gave Are nails in your coffin, forged original 50 who has already Miller's words, almost inaudibly. ent in the service of the United
in the wondrous Melting made corporal. (Wall Street A new American, in uniform States Army, recommended . . ."
this one to the camp newspapers,
"Petition granted," said Judge
Pot . . .
brokers and Ph.D's and factory and already bearing arms for his
and though it i sn't exactly Whit-
I was tempted to substitute managers are still privates and country, was born. Just by the Miller. Something pressed inside
man it fits my own experience as
my own buddies, Lundh and PFC's, but Fritz is a cook, and Word, like "Let there be light my throat. I could not see clear-
if written to measure:
ly for a minute, but it seemed
What talk is this, Adolph, of your Carlson, for Erickson's Peterson the American Army, too, has a and there was light." The scene
and Carlson, Turan and Sander- stomach to march on! We don't was somewhat Biblical in the to me that Judge Miller had a
master race?
smile for me when he said "peti-
American soldiers laugh you in off for Jaksic and Joczak, Zappe- mind, though. Fritz has fallen court room. Soldiers and their
tini and Abati for Gentile and arches and a real soldier's soul ielatives sat hushed, tense, tion granted." We took the oath
the Fuehrerace!
though every case was already of allegiance collectively in an
You can't master men who will Campisi, Flemming and O'Brien in a cook's body.)
Roland
Einstein
was
there,
too.
decided favorably in advance. impressive ceremony, but the
for
Kelly
and
Flaherty,
Gumpert
for freedom die,
And our battalion roll-call will and Bauser for Schmaing and He was chased out of Vienna Then poor Diego fell asleep and pledge to the flag was not with-
Baumgartner, Britt and McDon- four months before graduating the inevitable happened, and the out a touch of mirth. The chief
show you why:
ald for Dixon and Beaver, and in medicine, but the Army Spe• snoring resounded through the examiner had at first deleted the
Peterson, Carlson, Johnson, Wahl- Sager and Zagier for Greenberg cialized Training Program may dignified court like an earthquake phrase "one nation indivisible."
strom, Erickson, Dahl,
and Cohen. This would give me yet help him to finish school. in the midst of a wedding ser- One never knows with these
(Your Nordic brothers, see aren't a ready-made poem to celebrate Meanwhile he is ward orderly to vice. Judge Miller barely smiled, Southerners, thought the new-
your brothers at all!)
the occasion of 52 soldiers of a batch of German prisoners barely touched the table with born Yankee Zagier, for he may
Jaksic, Joczak, Koznick, Mamak, 20 nations swearing before Fed- convalescing in one of our hos- his mallet, but every man within be a secessionist. We Americans
Stachowicz, Podorski, Ro- eral Judge John Miller in the pital wings. Emil Sager, the New reach nudged Diego in the ribs ought to look into it . . .
Fort Smith court room today to Jersey carpenter whose mail al- at imperceptible i n t e r v a Is
manski,
("Inferior" Slays whose courage defend the Constitution. Fifteen ways gets mixed up with mine, throughout the remainder of the
What is goodness? First and
will show so even you can of us were Jewish soldiers from was with us. He is an Army car- long session, and his eyelids
• Agreement of the
forernoF
six or seven countries.
penter now, part time, and also never again showed even a sign will wit..
see.)
■ .riscience.
Twelve of the 52 gravitated understudy to the dispensary
rty-two Sections.
—Sutra
o'
Kelly, Hurley, Sullivan, Flaherty, spontaneously together when we orderly. Our Dutch mascot, Van of drooping during that time.
Collins, McGee and McKee, fell out in company area at 6:45 Stott, marked the greatness of
(Neutral Irish who finding U.S. this morning, all members of the the day by smiling. He works
soil lost their neutrality.)
Fort Dix "original 50." Werther in the tank repair shop, and
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
Baumgartner, Schmaing, Huff- Weiner, the chow hound and normally he does not smile be-
man, Heinlein, Seiser and Camp Dachau veteran, was there, cause he is constantly engaged
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
his myriad wrinkles smiling and in the task of changing the cot-
Rahr,
(Your Volksgenossen? Oh, no! crying at the same time and his ton from his right ear to his left
TO THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY
They're ours, and we have jaws working lustily on the and conversely.
Strutting, apple-polishing B.
breakfast apple still. Sol Kreit-
lots more!)
man was there, the London law- was there, too, still a private,
Dixon, Beaver, Armstrong, Jen- yer who got a stripe for acting despite his promise to us in the
kins, Haywood, Rice and income tax consultant to the train that he would make master
camp. And Gordon, the young sergeant in six weeks, a stripe
Coombs,
(Old stock stalwarts who plan, Englishman whom the draft a week. Weinberg, middle-aged
dream of, and expedite your board snatched away from the Jew from the depths of Hassi-
British Purchasing Mission and dic Galicia, came out in his full
doom.)
Greenberg, Morris, Gottlieb, Co- who now examines shells at the regalia of MP, Sam Brown belt,
hen, Tarvel, Stein and Ordnance sheds instead of exam- brass whistle, shoulder straps,
ining similar shells under Lease- and brassard. We had thought
Bloom,
("Low" Jews? They're Yanks Lend. Sardios, who had offered his classification comical, but he
now, eagerer than most to to beat up his own countryman is bringing in more custom to
dig your tomb!)
for bragging that Jews were the guardhouse than you could
AUTHORIZED
a stick at. Everybody is
abused in Greece; his offending shake
ingratiating himself with him to-
And Gentile, Campisi, Wong,
Painting
SERVICE
Yee, and Gomez and Sun' a "landsman" was not there, pos- day , for an "in" with the MP's
Bumping
is something of an investment.
The rear of our echelon of
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"originals" was brought up by
our great little Mexican, Jaime
USED CAR LOT
SHOW ROOM
Happy New Year
Diego, the saint of latrine 1945.
He went to cooks' school with
12721 LIVERNOIS
8911 GRANND RIVER
Kuh but has no stripe. The story
goes that the mess sergeant
TYLER 4 - 7600
caught him twice standing ladle
in hand over the pots—asleep
and snoring. In charge of the
52 candidates-Americans was Cpl.
Best Wishes For A Happy and Prosperous New Year!
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Piv, son of an American engi-
neer-specialist in Soviet Russia.
35 EAST GRAND RIVER
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He was also our sponsor before
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Judge Miller. The bus conductor
GROCERIES
was surprised at the sight of 52
CAdillac 4069.4070
GI's going to town in OD's at
—1 seven o'clock in the morning.
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IN, Was it a mass AWOL?
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"John Abrcau, born in 1912
in Cuba, permanently resident in
the United States since 1926,
at present in the service of the
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(A Page from the Diary of a Jewish Soldier)

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