European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes july Gin shortages if great Britain i july 16 will drink less whisky and Gin the rest of this year than in any year of the the reason is exports Are increasing and liquor supplies allocated for Home con sumption Are getting smaller and Gin and liqueurs Are Selling at fancy prices in London today with a result that londoners Are grumbling about the Black Market in conservative Mem Ber of parliament told the House of commons whisky and Gin were Selling at from to a bottle a Survey of wine shops in Lon dons West end revealed even higher Price for All types of liquor and the prices were openly printed on labels attached to the although the government ceiling Price on whisky and Gin is a some of these Black Market prices on other drinks Are san Fly Only government Tim ported drinks have to be sold at an officially marked and thus Cognac was on Sale at a Sherry at and some other wines at but the products Are inferior and Supply is very whisky and Gin Are strictly rationed by most wine dealers to regular usually one bottle of Gin and a Hal bottle of scotch whisky every two dealers quotes Are based on their prewar hence they cannot accept new before the War some disreputable merchants undercut agreed prices of whisky and thereby increased their wow they have a bigger quota As a result and have inflated their drink bought at auctions does not come under government regulations As to controlled this source of Supply provides More liquor for Sale at Black Market with the 15 per cent Cut in Beer production in it is becoming More and More difficult for the average  get a drink Rhine main Airport is being rebuilt Tob the the Rhine in in maj by Robert Rodgers staff writer july Tion is now underway Here to make Germany second largest pre War air Field the busiest and biggest on the continent the Rhine main air seven Miles from this Headquarters City of the is being expanded and developed by the army air forces to handle transatlantic air traffic and flying Craft so Large that they Are barely out of the blueprint european air trans port service of the air a Fol abandon its station at Esch according to an official an and centralize its con distillers buy Large potato Supply Tifental operations in the Rhine main port actual Date of full scale operation at the new port has not been set but completion of terminal buildings is expected by famed As a prewar German Zeppelin from which both the Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin started their transatlantic the Field was considerably damaged Fay German but a one of the longest in has been built aviation engineers already and the Field even now is at and american overseas air lines lodger the Rhine am Field ranked second Only to Tempelhof in Berlin As the most important airline base in in May of the Zeppelin the port for the fatal trip which ended when it caught fire while approaching the mooring Mast at under american auspices and the command of James present co at who formerly directed operations at and the will provide Complete facilities for commercial and contract looking to future expansion of european air the base will also include Community Center and billets for officers and pm and their families in two Small nearby Ger Man villages which have been taken Over by the air at a reasonable t v landlord sued for moving House july 16 Harvey told judge Neal Fite Gerald he didst pay be cause he woke up in the Middle of the night to find his with is family being taken across Busy Saint Aubin Harvey was sued by Tom Young for 100 rent Harvey said he fixed the fire As usual one night and went to he woke he to find the House several mocks the fire still Young said the City had ordered him to move the Harvey replied that Young haunt mentioned it july 16 up american Beer and whisky drinkers soon May be quaffing Large quantities of potato but  probably never know it unless they glance at the the agriculture department Dis closed that it has sold approximately carloads of surplus potatoes to the potatoes were part of cars bought up under the depart ments Price support experts said the potatoes purchased by should add up about Gallons of one spokesman said that the potatoes were sold to distillers since they were the Only ready it would have been impossible to ship them overseas for famine he because they would have j tales by Hoffman j Small crops threaten Cotton Supply new july16 a tight Cotton Supply situation is threatening the u because of the High rate of consumption and this seasons sharply reduced the i department of agricul1 Tures estimate for the 1946 Cotton acreage in the country at is More than acres under the average guess of the but with crop prospects endangered by Weevil infestation and weather even the optimistic do not see the possibility of the crop reaching last years production was approximately 000 the agriculture department re ported that per cent More Cotton was under cultivation than a year ago the indicated acreage this year compares with acres in cultivation a year ago and with an average of for the 193645 10year the 1945 Tot Tam Bales compared with the 10year average of the department said this was the first increase in Cotton acreage since adding that excessive Atofau in May throughout most of the Cotton Belt delayed chopping and cultivating of the As a Many Fields became very Early june was favourable and Farmers generally were Able to clean the considerable replanting and retarded Cotton to Many areas was said to be later than american egyptian Cotton to cultivation on july 1 was estimated at 2300 less than 1945 acreage and Only 15 per rent of the Peak of acres grown in Wavell says Ethiopia baffle losses Light i july 16 v Archibald Wavell disclosed in a hitherto unpublished military Dis Patch that the Campaign which freed Ethiopia from the italians Cost the British Only of whom 150 were Addis Ababa was occupied on april in a remarkable Campaign of two sir Alan Cunningham forces bad captured prisoners and had occupied some Square Wavell said in the third Ofa series an the stars and Apo s army include name and names f due to space letter May be cat for provided such does not alter the meaning of the theater Gripe a few weeks ago the Roxy theater in Salzburg was chosen the Best army theater in the and since then the gis have had to leave this place of which contained an pm club As Well As motion because the civilians want to hold their annual operas there in the gis now have a Cracker Box that seats about 500 if you Are Lucky enough to get a seat you lose 10 pounds a performance As a result of the heat the theater has but when there turned on they make such a Racket that you cant hear the Why should the gis be forced to give up a Good club and theater so the people we were fighting about a year ago can hold an opera editors note upon referring this letter to the chief of special we were informed that the which was specially built for he austrians annual 30day music released for a period of two and a half months to Mit the performers ample time to stage the after which time it will again be used by the it was realized that the Soldier would be Inco Nve and consideration was Given the but the Opportunity afforded the go to see one of the great pageants of Europe and hear some of its greatest musicians was considered ample justification for the we were informed that the substitute shows movies three times a never less than two Days and that there to adequate seating for All per sons during the showing Tynie of any one likes Row boats i have read that there Are Many ships going to the ships i wonder if the lifeboats of these ships  be brought Over there Are Many lakes and Rivers Here and i believe that Many gis would like to go i do not believe these Boate will sink and i think one person can Row some of the ones with engines could be used on the larger Rivers and vol july ims  new Sunder the act of March lord Archibald Wavell disclosed Battle losses at dispatches he Haj released recently covering the period when he was commander of British forces in the Middle East this he was a part of a six months drive which resulted in the Conquest of italian East Africa by in this period a Force of approximately men had been practically destroyed with the whole of its equipment and an area of nearly a million Square Miles had been one of the chief features of this remarkable Campaign was the storming by and Indian troops of the formidable Mountain barriers at Keren and Amba he editors note the com ment of the theater chief of special services in regard to this suggestion is that it is believed impractical to trans port lifeboats to the it for this purpose in View of the fact that boats Are available at most areas on a faces and additional boats Are now being procured in Germany by theater special seances help meet the of units and recreation areas who can not obtain boats currency con fro if you have to put the Cost of rations on your currency control Book when Tottey Are Over five or 50 then really you should put Down the Cost of All h that int you will be Short of Marks to make up the and Black Market business will still go every item that is bought should be put currency control that is the Only Way to Stop the