Show 1 Little Green Police Fight Fig I Criminals and Store Raiders I S By GUS M. M OEHM 1 United Press Staff aff Correspondent I BERLIN Jan 26 By lly U. U P. P P.- P. The life of the little green-clad green muscled hard-muscled le leather th r helmeted green policeman w whose os job job it is isto isto isto to keep order In in B Berlin during these chaotic times Is certainly no bed of roses lIes He's on the Job da day and night- night even en when not on actual patrol duty he is kept within barracks at alarm readiness The newer residence sections of Berlin where police calls were once rare today is overrun with crooks story second-story men street streetwalkers streetwalkers I wall walkers ers plunderers and every every known type of criminal overflow criminal overflow ing from Crom the North Side into the realism of fur coats and motorcars i They do a a a. thriving business I plundering food tood shops by day and andI burglarizing luxurious apartments by night I STREETS ARE DARK Women omen are afraid to pass along I the most prominent thoroughfares alone at night The lighting s system ss s sI tern tem has been greatly curtailed to I economize and dark I corners corners are filled tilled with suspicious people who are there for no good purpose There i 1 is no question that in recent re recent re- re cent times the fashionable west westend westend westend end has been overrun by questionable questionable ques elements said Herr Heir West est chief of ot the greenles as the police are called declared West est said the criminals are Imported imported Im lm ported from other CU er sections of the I city and front from the outside ele outside ele elements ments meats which come to take advantage advantage advantage tage of the breakup of morale among the people and the general ener l' l I unsettled conditions prevailing Inthe inthe In Inthe the capital cit city West pointed out what er e every resident of Berlin sees every day day day- bicycle patrols of five rIve and six men men passing up and down the main and side streets at intervals I autos of police rushing around the corner at all hours of the day and I night not only answering calls but making surprise visits into neighborhoods where trouble is exI ex- ex i ex-i i I Civilian det detectives tives mingle mingie with I I I the crowds reporting doubtful strangers I PLUNDER PLUNDER- STORES I The newest form of crime with which the police lave have lave to contend is the systematic s plundering of stores Young boys in group group formation formation for for- mation matlon enter a store sture and plunder it forcibly They disappear as asi i iI I rapidly as they appear and before the police can get to the scene are gone from the neighborhood By I agreement the they meet In another I II I square or corner and start their activities anew In one da day recently recently re- re re-p re I police poUce estimated that 1000 shops were plundered In Berlin I Plundering arrests have haste been so numerous ous that the regular courts cannot handle all the cases Three special plundering courts have been established to do nothing but buttry buttry tr try cases of persons charged with I raiding shops West Vest declared the Berlin Herlin police I force though as strong a as ever had proved insufficient in number I to tl handle the new new- crime wave wa and that new recruits had been added Every ery police station station has four Cour squads of men to answer rush calls Married cops see littie little little lit lit- tle tie of ot their families since under alarm preparedness they must mut I be on duty twenty four hours of the day either active or at their barra barracks Auto trucks carr carrying Ing searchlights searchlights searchlights search search- lights dash here and there at night spraying yIng dark corners corners with bright light This system Is especially useful in the suburban villa sec eec I |