European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Fet March 1948 the stars and stripes Page 11 port smugglers Trie by William staff correspondent Bremerhaven every week guards at the Gates to the Dock area of the Bremerhaven port of embarkation uncover a new by which German Dock workers to smuggle out every thing from a few Coffee Beans to a whole Case of one of the Slickest tricks some of the workers pulled was the firewood when icy winds were sweep ing Over land Bremen and civilians bad Little with which to keep themselves workers were permitted out Small amounts of scrap Wood for heating that set some ingenious to be took three pieces of two your lumber about two feet he gouged out All but fee ends of one of the pieces and stuck it in Between the other placing a Pound of or what have in the hollowed out he then Tejett the three pieces together with string and walked calmly out the business picked up for him As he started making such items for fellow workers at a Price of one pack of All went Well until one Man tried to carry out some sugar and part of it leaked out As he passed the so ended that Racket and the practice of carrying out scrap unless approved by the port operations but the girls think them up German police matrons know now when there shaking Down at the they have to Check brassieres for extra for the girls have been known to hide a hunk of butter there and try to take it one1 Day a Gate guard idly lacked the inside rear tire of a tworan Dahal i truck As it was stopped for the tire was but it sounded funny to investigation revealed that All the air had been let out of the the inner tube split and that it had been filled with Loose packages of now that Racket also has recently an aged worker hobbled up to tie Gate in route something in his gait aroused the suspicion of the they took him into their and had him remove his they were filled with Coffee then theres the false Bottom there was a time when patient workers would labor for hours to put a false and collapsible Bottom into a Jerry in Only a few inches of they would smuggle out stolen butter another j false guards 1 have discovered false Bottoms on Large trucks and recovered much in addition to the false guards sometimes have to be worried about false such is the Case of Cor Dunand and reconnaissance cars whose Canvas tops readily lend them selves to the scheme of an additional Cov ering and sufficient bracing by Means of which Many pack Ages of Cigar ets could be smuggled it int Only the bicyclists and motorists who bother the but Coffee sacks have been found buried under of pounds of Coal on engines hauling freight ears from the Dock German Dock workers will Tell you they know of instance where a Case of Cigar ets has been silently dropped from a docked an expert swimmer moves the Case ahead of him to awaiting boat and still later the Cigar ets Are smuggled now head of military government was for Ion time the port Security readily admits the minor declares the total from the Here Are lower than in seaports of comparative size in the there Are no gis guarding Gates in Dock area with the exception of Gate the main Leith thinks the German guards do a Fine Job of halting after the arrest of a Small he or she is turned Over to the and a record of the theft kept at port Security usual first offender fines Are about 100 Marks and 10 Days or More of while the Dock of is Security officials Here think they have been Lucky in that they not been bothered by dope smuggling or the Diamond they just Hope it that occupation briefs Berli Scandinavia phone service is resumed March 16 Telephone service for germans be tween Berlin and scandinavian has been under an order of the Allied there will be no limitation on in coming Calls nor Way and in the sector of the germans who desire to make outgoing Calls must obtain approval from the joint Export import which must provide hard currency payment of negotiations also Are in Progress to restore the Telephone service to France and Czechoslovakia As soon As facilities Are dec outpost proposed March 16 Spe 6th Here wishes to establish an dec outpost of the 6th whose history begins less than a month after the outbreak of the civil the present 6th is the predesignated old 6th Smith requests that All former members of the group write to Jim at Apo giving full name and current he Hopes to arrange a reunion of the members this jobs open in Bavaria March 16 though there has been a steady in 1 crease since 1945 and there Are approximately bavarian employed there Are still Job openings for skilled and unskilled construction workers in Nurnberg and of mob manpower division officials Relief shipments totalled March 16 special voluntary Relief supplies shipped Hesse from 31 countries during january totalled Sharon Omagh Public announced of the Relief supplies were sen by which shipped 14643 packages amounting to 82nd a slates reunion March 16 special former officers of the 82nd a Are invited to attend operation reunion from april 68 at Gar special including a banquet and a at the Casa is those planning to attend the re Union Are asked to wire or before March to David Garmisch Mili tary Apo the Telephone number is Garmisch 3924 or cd less unit commended March 16 former members of 223rd pm european pm have been commended by Gen Lucius Neucom com for completing 17 consecutive months without a Case of venereal it was an the battalion is the first unit in the Giessen area to receive commendation from Clay for going Over a year without the has been an inoperative Headquarters since feb were reassigned to other pm i 78 service clubs in zone bad March 16 Spe j the current phasing out program of american red Cross clubs in the and their trans Fer to Neucom special services a roundtrip of the status of army service clubs shows there Are 7j clubs in operation in the occupied zones of Germany and Allied shows popular bad 16 Spe to be popular diversion for dec night club a tabulation of re ports submitted to the shows Neucom that during the week ending March 85 performances Given were seen by on the Neucom circuit were three two two pour French and one italian eleven Allied then in the gave 66 performances to an estimated audience of per chemical course to open March 16 fifteen air Force officers Are scheduled to attend an intensive five Day training course in air chemical tactics at the Safe air chemical Center March 22 to Ward co of the Cen announced chemical Security training and offensive use of chemical agents by the air Force will be Ufa officer decorated March 16 James vehicle registrar officer of the Ufa Provost marshal has been awarded a Bronze Star for exemplary conduct in combat against the enemy Normandy on it was announced sergeant extends enlistment March 16 special sgt George acting first sergeant of the 537th my has extended his enlistment to six Stewart is a Veteran of 11 years service and plans to make the army his school adjutant named v March 16 special Robert Agnew has succeeded Spillman Fitzpatrick As adjutant at the school of standards at Zell am it was announced Fitt has been assigned to and 4th in bipartite finance chief March 16 the appointment of Hillhouse As chief of the Public finance bipartite finance was announced Hillhouse formerly was chief of the Public finance Branch of the com Mission for he is the author several books on Public dec films Drew crowds bad March 16 Spe report from the motion picture service shows that movie attendance for the week ending 7 was attendance at showings of 35mm films was persons viewed 530 showings of 16mm election directive noted March 16 special refugee and expelled groups Are prohibited by military government directives from submitting Independent of candidates for the local hessian elections to be held april Otto Deputy chief of the Omagh civil administration disclosed the purpose of this he is not to oppose the legitimate Aimson but rather to facilitate their assimilation into the indigenous German coalition expelled indigenous com posed largely of Lon established hessian May put up Independent candidates the forthcoming expelled workers praised March 16 jewelry near formerly used As a smokeless powder was inspected yesterday by Murray Van bavarian military Van Wagoner congratulated sex pellets from the sudetenland who have reestablished the jewelry Industry where the operated a Small arms r this graphic reminder to drive safely has been France to the Flint Kaseane quadrangle to bad 1st the wreck Cost the Drivers signal Che
