European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july 1946 Dnieper dam to produce Power by 1 w july 22 t Dnieper july 22 working on the largest single reconstruction Job in postwar Europe expect to derive electric current from the restored Dnieper dam by december that will be 33 months after the first total swelled later to to restore the soviet unions greatest hydroelectric development after the red army and the germans had taken turns in wrecking it during the addressing the first foreign Cor respondents to visit the dam since Feodor the project described How fondly the rus Sian people regarded the one of the first great achievements of the soviet Loginov added i Hope no atomic bombs will destroy main Structure correspondents found that the main Structure of the dam had been fully they watched work per cent were building the Power station that had turned out kilowatt hours of electricity annually before for the and villages of Southern the and the Krivol Britain May share in the Restora Tion Loginov disclosed that negotiations were proceeding with the British electric company for the Purchase of specialized equipment from its Switzerland the major objective of the wehrmacht 1941 summer offensive in the was completed in 1932 after soviet workers had toiled five its Concrete and steel 200 feet High and 1100 Yards made the Dnieper navigable along its full length by raising its level 115 feet in addition it provided irrigation and Power for vast dynamited in 1941 when the germans reached it in the Midsummer of 1941 they found the russians had dynamited a Gap along the top of the dam 220 Yards in effectively preventing them from using the Roadway across the the russians had also disabled the electrical two years later when the hed army returned they found that the germans had completed the destruction of the project with malicious the base of the dam was left standing to a level of Only 16 feet above the Rivers Normal height Loginov declared that a con Crete area equal to an 11story building in height had been dynamited along about 850 Yards of the dams by the All the turbines and generators had been blown up and left in the destroyed first by the russians and later in War by the the mighty Dnieper in the Well on the Way a a Force of labourers aided by German pcs Are working around clock to prepare the dam for Hydro electric production by covered with he Only 10 civilians of a prewar population of crawled out from the rubble of Zap Aroche the dams reconstruction began at unskilled labor was recruited from the neighbouring collective workers were sent to byelorussian to Cut Down Timber which was floated Down the a farm was set up for the project acres in which became self 500 400 pigs thousands of there were German pcs among the people re building the there working Loginov the re constructors work shifts of eight although nearly half the operations continue 16 or 24 hours each so far everything has gone according to Loginov russian says yank culture will editors note this is the second of two articles on a description by Hyo one of rus Sias Foremost of press ions during a recent tour of the United r by the associated press americas spiritual culture is Only just beginning and will become great and Ilya leading russian newspaper declared in a radio Moscow transmission in continuing to broadcast Ehren burgs Izvestia sketches based on a recent american the radio quoted the writer As saying thoughtful people capable of estimating the Progress of history rallied around he even if they these people have been removed or the late presidents activities have not Dis appeared without a intelligentsia rises an american intelligentsia has it is still weak and it is As though it were hiding from the Neon lights and Juke from the Church preachers with their allusions to commercial firms it hides in a gloom which recalls but among that intelligentsia one finds More bold people who understand that salvation does not lie in running away or but in raising the spiritual level of the average american to the technical civilization which accompanies him from the maternity Home to the the soviet writer was impressed with standardization of towns and main Coffee pots and but concluded there is a certain skill in such Monotony and added that he could not agree with those europeans who sneer at the standardization of things m styles duh let the suits be the same style on the other they Are within everyone some europeans ridicule America for her cult of now the same europeans Fawn upon the Amer hoping to receive from them some obsolete machine or old fashioned he Ehrenberg condemned what he termed a certain moral standardization he found in the feel Ings and conduct of com menting that the press and Cine Mas Are depriving the people of data yielded by nazi general 1 saved Many Monty says occupation by Shep july 22 mar Shal Viscount Bernard Mont Gomery disclosed in one of his in frequent Public speeches that he had obtained information which saved Many British lives from captured German hitter von addressing luncheon after receiving the Freedom of the City of Montgomery said that he Gomery but i got from von Thoma certain information about the character and military methods of his Superior that stood me in very Good Stead later Battles and which without question saved Many British describes soldiers the British War Leader described British soldiers As Calm and Reso Lute fighting Meh and said they were happiest soldiers in the the German Montgomery was a firs class professional Soldier who had three very marked he wag extremely Well trained technically he was a Complete expert in the use of ground and always turned it to his own advantage and his discipline was Montgomery sawed invited von Thoma to dinner after the German Africa Korps com Mander was captured at Alamein for the purpose of questioning rim about the methods of German Field marshal there i certain criticism of this Mont july the european edition is of blushed civilian Altdorf to Corre to anti Ujj lion Drw Ted to Apo 8 to the new York office Jih Puld to Washington St this not an official publication of the army entered As second claw matter March at the Poat Offlee new n under to act of March 3 its Odd that you should say that keep hewing amerika Nisch voices to my Toor address an letters to a uhf the stars and Apo include name and names Are deleted on one to space letter May be ent for provided snob editing does not alter the meaning of the reenlistment promises in re enlisting for the we were at least that we would be Able to bring our dependents overseas once we were permanently we Are now assigned to the 306th bomb and find that this Headquarters is doing absolutely Noth ing in regards to providing quarters for the dependents of it this matter has been Dis cussed with our air and also went As far As the chaplains but their response amounts a to our chief Peeve is Why we men we rent inter viewed and screened More thoroughly so that we would have been automatically stationed at a base which has set up quarters for the i wives and this situation does not help a soldiers morale very and it Burns one up to think that nothing can or is being done to remedy this editors note go com ments that they have no Means of ascertaining what information or assurances concerning transportation of dependents May be Given individuals re enlisting in the information published by this theater has consistently pointed out that the approval for the shipment of dependents to any Community must be contingent upon the Avail ability of quarters in that for this reason it is essential that the individual be permanently assigned before submitting his dependents in the Case of located in liberated it is not feasible for the army to provide permanent quarters for dependents inasmuch As the closing out of such stations will undoubtedly necessitating the reassignment of personnel in the occupied it is anticipated that phasing out of some installations till not permit dependents to maintain residence Long enough to justify an tensile housing in assigning military requirements must take the first consideration must be the individuals status As a not As a husband or and at present administrative problems make it impossible to on the Large scale the assignment of replacement personnel with dependents accommodations in each Public affection evidently Way ahead of Munich in this matter of displaying Public affection too because on june Par Dally Berlin District forbade the Public display regardless of nation your article in the july Issue would indicate that we were behind the times and that Only Munich realized that petting and necking in Public with any or lower is in poor and certainly not consistent with military of holding hands another thing