European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July the stars and stripes page5 autobahn cd operate legally Drifting Fraulein pose problem i it hitchhikers unregulated by civil Rule i by Arthur Noyes staff writer july autobahn Germany Mobile Street whose Hitchhike rides with personnel across the rus Sian zone on the Berli Helmstedt autobahn have resulted in an in crease in cd among soldiers regularly travelling from the German capital to the Are Virtu ally outside of the Law and no action can be taken against Learned Public safety officers of Omegus stated that the germans have no anti hitchhiking Laws As in Amer Ica and As a the girls cannot be arrested for Riding in army officers of which supervises the activities of German police in the stated that German activities along the Berlin autobahn Are con trolled by the russians and we dont know what their regulations Only gis punished they stated that in the face the German police pick up autobahn girls whenever they visit but that if the girls have Cor rect travelling orders there is very Little that can be they said when american soldiers Are stopped for carrying German civilians with out the Soldier is liable for but no action is taken against the germans because they have broken no the Berlin constabulary runs a daily patrol along the but Only to Aid Drivers whose vehicles have broken Down and to carry out Security if we make any arrests for speeding or carrying autobahn it is in addition to our assignment and our patrols Are so limited we Are not Able to concentrate on the a constabulary officer unit commanders blamed Berlin District Provost pinned the responsibility for enforcing the regulation forbidding army Drivers to germans without authorization on the unit if they Are worried about the Auto Bahn he they should not try to pass the enforcement problem to somebody but should make sure that when their Drivers Are guilty of breaking the the men Are Given strict if this were the problem would not be As Frank said that the Berlin maps formerly ran patrols to the half Way Point of the autobahn where they met British this was he because it proved a waste of time and Gaso recent travellers along the Berli Helmstedt autobahn stated that the number of autobahn girls along the Highway has in creased and attributed the increase to the fact that All f6ur occupation Powers have become More strict with the pickup girls in today pickup they May be found tomorrow on where she is free to operate without fear of German or Allied dependents expected by 1947 the stars and stripes Bureau july dependents have arrived in the theater from the Usset officials announced new arrivals in the next six months will bring the total number of american dependents to of these Are to arrive in in in september and 104 in november and Usset statisticians add that applications from officers have been from enlisted person Nel and 712 from officers have requested enlisted men and civilians Mexico names soviet envoy Mexico july 19 mexican minister to Senor Luis Sanchez had been named ambassador to the newspaper Excelsior cattle thefts vex British authorities the stars and stripes Bureau july authorities arc worried about mid night cattle rustlers and knaves who milk cows in the Fields during curfew hours in the British the milk thefts Are made they because the cows Are normally milked in the Fields and not in in addition to the slaughtering and removing of Young livestock by Farmers have reported numerous thefts of foodstuffs in the two men were arrested at 4 while running away with 80 pounds of potatoes in and a third thief was caught digging Pota toes in a by Robert Rodgers staff writer july Ger Man girls arrived Here one of them with a Case of cd so severe she looked a decade older than her 16 the shoes of the seven were stained with dirt from Silesia and their clothes were dishevelled As they Sank onto the Straw mattresses in the under ground Bunker on Glauburg they hoped there would be soap for washing thirty seven boys also arrived Here this homeless youths whose stomachs were tighter than civilian police detained both groups on like thousands before the wanderers were directed to the ugly Comfort of air raid bunkers at Ren Derler Strasse and Glauburg where soup from the Frankfurt Community Kitchen quieted their Des Perate hunger and blankets were issued a minute or two before their sleeping to prevent their Sale on the Black they Are looking for their the German attendant in the shelter or they Are looking for mostly they dont know what there looking an average of such youths Between the Ages of 15 and 21 Are detained Here according to my officials of greater two thirds of them Are boys who have lost their families while the rest of the refugees Are girls who want to work for american they include the neurotic Crimi Nal Type developed by the Erwin my youth Germany had nothing similar to them before the he described the rate As 90 per cent among girls on the crimes committed to satisfy their hunger for food and articles is Fol Lowed by detention by the police and efforts to place them on farms or in firms As a plan is being formulated for a country rehabilitation Home near gadgets improve cause laughs new july 19 is the open season on new plans and gadgets designed to raise the Post War Standard of the better vision Institute has a Beauty plan for Young ladies who Wear they should use a Little Eye Shadow and Wear of the possess Menot marriage insurance Union has been formed to plug a Bill in Congress for government wedding policy owners would pay a Premium during the honeymoon and collect if themar Ridge goes on the idec Guto Magazine reports devel of the first Maiden voyage of a Pas Senger ship since 1940 when the Hollan America lines Westerham arrives from Rotterdam business week predicts water nonskid rugs of paper twine coated with a flexible Vinyl non melting chocolate bars Are made according to Amer ican by starch starch and water Are and then wrung the american Magazine also tells about a Pillow for Bathtub readers which is held to the Side of the tub exp group plans meeting pm ends of a Small bottle of com suction cup pressed air which will inflate five j it can be refilled at a service business week reports a new microphone which travels without wires or connections and is so Small it can hidden on the great for putting candid conversation on the Republic aviation says it is going in for production of postwar per Sonal its Seabee amphibian cruises 560 Miles at 103 Miles an United air lines announces an increase in free baggage allowances for International travellers from 55 to 66 new York will celebrate the end photos attract germans in zone libraries special to the stars and stripes july group of 50 former German prisoners of War from Wurttemberge Baden will meet at Coburg near Schwa 31 to develop plans for utilizing to the fullest their knowledge of democracy As formed in internment Camps in the United one of the expressed objectives of the group is to help train other Ger Man War veterans in new skills and trades which the former prisoners Learned during their another objective is discussion of Germany problems in the Light of their studies in internment Camp classes As Volunteer students on political science and re lated religious and educational leaders will meet with the veterans who to form the nucleus of a speakers Terry and the pirates the stars and stripes Bureau july graphs of life and fashion in the Are bringing a gleam to the eyes of Defeated germans who visit the american information centers in 20 occupied Usset describing the Libra Ries of photographs and books which have been collected by citizens and scholars in Germany since the end of the said yesterday that the most popular items in the information centers Are weekly picture magazines and fashion Combina Tion libraries and exhibits Are now sponsored by the cultural centers will be expanded throughout g5 with an additional four planned in the near Only eight of the present 20 Are open now to the Gen eral such centers were first established in the it by the office of War mainly in Allied and Neutral to answer the Call for contemporary american publications which had been denied the residents during the cultural blockade in psychological warfare Branch initially organized the project in the Spring of recently the program has spread through the in formation control which originally limited the centers to in licensed scholars and others who had professional interest in the publications because of the limited on a basis similar to free Public libraries in the the information centers Are being opened gradually to the general German any German can now look at America through the libraries in Stutt Erlanger and twelve other cities Are restricted still to professional preschools for germans hit at caste by Dorothy staff writer july the first time in German history youth will be Able to secure free College preparatory training under the Erms of a plan for sweeping Educa ional reforms just initiated in greater the new As described by my educational Aims a death blow at Germany old cast Ridden schooling preparation for higher education in German universities was limited previously to the fortunate who could afford the tuition fees of High according to the new which will affect the school children in this All the varied types of stat operated schools will be welded nto a uniform increased numbers of corresponding roughly to american Rural consolidated will bring improved educational facilities to children in country frequently neglected the num Ber of Beruf Schule or vocational training schools also will Bein parties approve political parties in greater Hesse have unanimously endorsed the re form author of the scheme is Franz minister of education for greater who has been Active for the past 30 years in German secondary school another vital change in the direction of More democratic and progressive education is the require ment to teach English language and citizenship from the fifth Grade Vaughn de acting chief of mrs educational and religious affairs Section in greater emphasized that the changeover to the new plan would necessarily be a gradual a shortage of qualified teachers is impeding re while bombed out schools have produced an acute problem in Over Hill mans Union names Potofsky As president new july 19 general executive aboard of the amalgamated clothing workers America Cio designated Jacob Potofsky As president to succeed Sid Ney who died Potofsky has been general Secre tary and treasurer of the Union since by ctr artery of Newt by Milton Caniff arran6ed matties at the rest Chance i wave hadt0 afe an at the Call c no on i Here knows n6er need a sljn6j changed my plans next ale Cathay trip thai flying in