European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse March 1948 the stars and stripes Page 5 keeping up their motto first division Hotto latest to reenlist in the 18th Are the above members of a they Are to Leonard Joseph Donald and pee Willace quicker and kneeling Donald Bingham and signed up for five More the rest for corps occupation briefs Milburn reviews had Tolz Parade bad March 7 at the first formal Parade of 1948 1st and 1st commanding presen Ted Bronze Star awards to one officer and three enlisted men of the Flint the citation orders were read by assistant District adjutant the decorated for exemplary conduct in were for duty in the Pacific Craig com for duty in Europe Ralph for duty in Europe and John Pur for duty in the units of the 1st pm my Honor guard and the 1st wag and k of the 7822nd Sci formed in ranks to witness the education Center opens 7 special the Schweinfurt army education Center has opened at Conn bar Home of the 6th the most popular of the 10 courses offered is among the instructors Are Bruce 28th Alex 28th Alvin 6th regt and miss Margaret Schweinfurt Grade Eto Veteran be enlists March 7 special George combat Veteran with the 7th army in the with nearly five years army reenlisted for three More years at the 7336th depot where he i mess Vespoli wears the combat medical badge and participated in the Central Europe and Rhineland Bond sales spurt f March 7 Donald in charge of Bond sales at the 7715th dec ordnance school at re ported today that James formerly an ordnance officer in the 88th bought two and a few minutes later Alvin the schools mess also bought two Salzburg class Center opens March 7 with an attendance of 125 the new army education Center opened Emmerich Eber is daily attendance is expected to average 150 with the rus Sian and German languages and photography indicated As being the most popular the Center will be open four nights of the with 29 courses thirsty thieves raid club March 7 in a robbery at the Corner club of thirsty burglars made off with 30 bottles of italian Cognac and two barrels of valued in excess of the exact Tim of the theft is not inasmuch As the cellar was still locked when the articles were discovered Soldier of week wins tour March 7 seven expense Psid special services tour has awarded to Reuben Miller of Furstenfeld Bruck air who was recently selected Soldier of the week by Malcolm base Miller enlisted in the Force in after serving with the 35th infantry division from Lotc the he was first stationed at Landsberg air and later transferred to Furstenfeld Bruck As a heavy equipment operator Wiedemann trial postponed March 7 Denali fiction trial of Fritz Wiede former nazi Consul general in san Francisco and onetime adjutant to Adolf has been postponed in Pfarr Kirchen for an indefinite Russia blocks Farben allies charge March 7 foday was charged with violating the Potsdam agreement by trans Ferring German plants to soviet the american and British delegates to the Allied coordinating committee maintained that the pots dam agreement provides that plants seized As reparations must be re moved from by its own has taken Over the ownership of 124 German plants and converted them into soviet Stock the Issue arose after the soviet Lukian again charged that the Western allies had not carried out a fou Power Law providing for the liquidation of the Farben chemical George Amer ican Deputy military denied this and asserted that Only soviet obstructionism had caused failure to implement the Allied decision to break up backed by the British Nevil Hays said the Transfer of Farben plants and real estate to ownership violated not Only Allied decision on Farben but Potsdam agreement As Kaiser warns Berlin voters March 7 bitter attack on of the strongest heard in postwar was made today by Jacob one of the leaders of the Christian Democrat party in the soviet who was co chairman of the social democrats until his resignation was insisted upon by ii russians told a mass meeting of party supporters in the american sector of Berlin True democracy can make no com Promise with the lesson of Prague erases All Lope that a True democracy can be created while cooperating with the he every Ger Man must make an immediate Deci Sion whether he stands for preservation of the rights of Man or for Berlin is the Center of frictions which justify the fear of political developments similar to those witnessed in Berlin must make up its mind evasion is no longer commissary hours changed for Josfa March new schedule for shopping hours for the forces in Austria sales commissary Here will become effective it was announced the new schedule provides for the commissary to remain open six Days a week and does away with the wednesday on monday through Friday the commissary will pen at 8 and will close at 3 on saturday it will close at 12 would mobilise cats for Aid to Europe Flash was named the 1 cat in the proposed plan to Send an army of american cats to Europe to prevent rats from pilfering food the feline ref was proposed after an editorial by a London newspaper on the rodent co Stab plan joint airborne training operation March 7 constabulary and the air Force conduct joint operations against simulated guerrillas in three Days of airborne training operations beginning March the announced by and by Safe in wies will be staged in the Fritzlar marburg they will involve nearly 50 c47 transport a number of fighter planes and two constabulary one together with weapons and will Board the transports in Munich March 10 and Fly to the exercise area near where troops and equip ment will de plane and function As ground forces against the Gerril the guerrillas will be drawn from another constabulary squad the enemy Force will be strafed and bombed by c47 thunderbolts ased at also support ing the attacking Force will be a number of constabulary reconnaissance and courier residents of the Man Euver areas Are being notified in Advance so hat civilian traffic another activities will not interfere with the Wiesbaden officer Dies Day after wife arrives March 7 Happy reunion Here turned into tragedy within 24 col David Aldrich welcomed his wife to he was dead at his Home a Day air Force officials said an autopsy was being although he apparently died from natural Aldrich was projects officer in the plans and control Branch of air forces in Regensburg lauded for big dimes fund March 7 special Alan commander of Regensburg received a Etter from Clarence Luebner praising the Post for Rais ing More than in the March of dimes Huebner pointed out that the european command this year exceeded by a wide margin the collections of previous consider ing there were fewer personnel on duty in the us labor my lauds trials March 7 Elwyn British labor watched the Nurnberg trials later issued a press statement in which he pointed out the vital contribution of the trials to inter National Law if proper lessons Are deduced from to inter National who was a member of British prosecution staff Here under sir Hartley British at Torney during the trial of Hermann Goering and Asher top watched the proceedings against High ranking nazi dip the evidence presented by the american prosecution concerned the murder by germans in March 1944 of 50 Raf officers after their escape from Sahagen prison evidence showed that notes drafted by the German foreign office and sent to t he British government through Switzerland covered up the real purpose of the shootings by saying the officers were shot be cause they disobeyed instructions when among the charges against the 21 diplomats and other leaders in this Case is a charge of Black Mart franc May hit 499 operators say March 7 France Slid into its second month of Legal free Money it was apparent that the illegal dealers took the initial government punch in stride and then staged a Strong come after two weeks of lagging far behind official sidewalk Money traders started a three week counteroffensive that was climaxed with a 342 Francito Dollar As com pared to 305 one operator has promised that 499 will be hit before these figures vary slightly according to the Cut taken by the Money on the Legal travel agencies and most hotels have been offering 290295 francs to a Dollar for travellers checks and about 297300 for a few Banks have been paying legally for All Dollar at about 300303 francs to a Little business in checks the sidewalk rates have wavered Between 325335 francs to a Dollar up till and 305310 for travellers there has been very Little business in travellers checks since most americans have preferred to take the slight loss and change their checks although France set up an offi Cial Rooney Market at the the so called free rate has stayed at 305307 francs for a Dollar Ever since the Start of the second week of the currency at that time stunned Black marketers were Only Able to offer 270280 francs to a Dollar and made preparations to leave but once they tried a it was and has been
