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...investigation of the Eder case uncovered more guilt than Abel's and Fran-key's. Their battalion, the 796th Military Police, has 600 men. More than 100 knew about the kidnaping; 20 of them had been approached by those who wanted Eder kidnaped. None reported the proposition or the kidnaping to U.S. authorities. The 796th has many black-marketeers, some, called the "three-to-two boys," who lend money on a basis of $300 returned for every $200 advanced. Three-quarters of the MPs in the battalion are under 21, and most of them have been subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Kidnaping, C.O.D. | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...happy-go-lucky Sergeant John Frankey and his quiet little buddy Corporal Paul Abel were supply noncoms in C Company of the 796th M.P. Battalion. Frankey, 29, came from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frankey, Abel & the Torpedo | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Natural History Society.The 796th regular meeting of the Harvard Natural History Society will be held this evening at 7.45 o'clock at the rooms of the society, Society Building, Holmes Field. Dr. C. B. Davenport will address the society; subject: "Hybridity in Animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Organizations. | 11/15/1894 | See Source »

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