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iigglers 4US i x EM D i e In USAREUR During WeekHErDELBERG, Sept. 4 (Special) The deaths of six soldi*** were reported to the adjutant general, USARjSim Hq, during the week ending yesterday- ^ .CpI Dewitt E. Wilson, Jr., 320th Replacement Bn, died at the llth Fid Hosp Aug. 27* An autopsy is to be performed to determine the exact ca-ose of death. Wilson** father, Dewiti E. Wilson* Sr., of Trenton, N.J., ras notified*Two Army corporals were killed in a crash on the autobahn between Karlsruhe and Pforzheim Aug. 28, involving a military tow truck pulling two other vehicles, and a G*r- : man truck. The crashed vehicles • burst into flames. Identification of the two soldiers, members of the 583d Med Arab Co, is withheld pending notification of kin.A private with the 3629th Administrative Area Unit died at the 97th GH at Frankfurt Aug. 29 of an in- : tracnmial hemorrhage. Identifies-: tion is withheld pending notification of kin. ‘Cpl James I*. Gale, 40th Tk Bn, was the soldier fatally injured Aug. 29 at the Kaefertal trolley station near Mannheim while attempting to board a trolley. He apparently slipped and rolled under the moving trolley. His wife, Lillian Getz Gale, of Birmingham, Ala., was notified.A 508th MP Bn sergeant died of knife wounds yesterday in Lands -hut a few minutes after being stabbed by a German civilian. ;Two soldiers whose deaths were previously reported have been identified as Pfc James C. Palmer, 1st Inf Div, killed Aug. 24 when the private car he was driving overturned in Eberstadf, and M Sgt Stephen Chupak, Jr., 40th Ord Depot Co, who died of natural causes at the 5th GH in Stuttgart Aug- 25. Palmers mother, Mrs, Josephine McDowell, of Perkiosville, N.Y.. was notified, Chupak’s wife, Mrs. Anna ChupaS. was Residing with him in Sindelfingen.Police Warn' k •• k • ■ • . v*.‘Surrender Or Be Shot’By OMER ANDERSONStaff Correspondent BONN, Sept. 4 (SS)—A ‘'surrender or be shot* ultimatum was handed to the legions of coffessmuggler* operating on the Belgianand Dutch frontiers yesterday by the Aachen district customs con-mantiLTheir ire aroused by complaints smugglers with coffee-laden autos were trying to “run down agents and, in some cases, were turning loose savage police dogs on th« customs sleuths, the customs chiefs warned that they had instructed agents to “draw a bead* oir any smuggler who ignores warning shots.Band ScatteredGiving emphasis to the ultimatum, agents scattered a band of four smugglers with a burst of gunfira near Alt-Linzenshaueschen, on the Belgian border. The smugglers tossed away 180 pounds of coffee and vanished into the underbrush.The customs command has confirmed the fatal shooting of three smugglers by its agents within the last five months, the wounding of seven others and the clawing of two women by agents* “coffee sniffing* police dogs. A fourth smuggler died of a heart attack during a chase.5,5tt ArrestedIn the last seven months police have arrested some 5,500 coffee smugglers and seized 59 automobiles and 33 motorcycles. Border jails are crammed with smugglers to the point where new arreateej can no longer be accommodated. *Police reported the seizure of* * sedan and a truck and. trailer loaded' with 6,400 pounds of ooffeew A customs patrol driving a Porsche sports car trapped the sedan after a chase through the streets of Aachen which ranged up to 90 mph.Two suspects were arrested.
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