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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1951
Page
2
A brief Alyria Chronicle Telegram item notes a July event in Alyria Ohio with unspecified details and dates. Openers mention local happenings and community notices from the July issue.
Police search for a “foxy-faced man in a star suit” after seven year old Christine Butcher is found strangled two miles from her home near Robinson’s training HQ. A 15 year old girl testified a man was with Christine before her death. investigation centers on a late Sunday timing.
In Saigon area a large cohort of former German SS members serve in the French Foreign Legion. About 30,000 Legionnaires exist with roughly 20,000 in Indo China. Estimates place Germans at up to 70 percent of the Indo China force. many seek French citizenship and a fresh start.
Legion trainees endure brutal basics at Sidi Bel Abbes Morocco amid myths that the Legion draws mainly criminals fleeing justice.
A Legion officer in Cairon says recruits are screened against police wanted lists before acceptance and can be handed to civilian police for serious charges. Life is hard with low pay around 800 piastres monthly, strict discipline, and brutal battle assignments. Most officers are French.
A Lexington report notes enlisted men are not French in theory, yet many claim Belgian or Swiss identities. A domestic scene follows with a robin singing as a damper is opened, creating a quiet, domestic moment amid newsprint clatter.
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