European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes saturday March 20, 1948.j Munich troops stage 5-hour practice Alert new commissary cuts Down shopping time Munich March 19 is All troops of the Munich military Post and its sub posts in Bavaria were called out on a practice Alert at 5 30 . Today. The All Clear sounded at 1015. Wearing full Field equipment men were posted along the streets of Munich and special guard details were thrown up around a All military installations in the . Col. William Hobbs operations officer stressed that the Alert was routine. Afterwards he described performance As excellent. The troops carried out tactical problems at Bridges around Ware houses and at other vital Points under the Eye of umpires. Col. Sevier r. Tupper co of map inspected the performance. All units were notified at 4 p. M. Yesterday to get ready for the Alert. The men who normally handle the army s housekeeping problems from desks at Post Headquarters were called out along with maps truck Drivers Ana troopers. In a serious emergency the troops of the military Post would assist the constabulary it. Col. Howard s Havermann executive officer noted. He said the Alert was carried out so the troops would be ready in the event of major strikes or an attack on food supplies. Sub posts at bad Tolz and Berchtesgaden also took part. Directly overseeing the Alert was maj. Harvey Johnston assistant s3 officer in charge of operations. 2 doctors 2 others charged with Transf using cd blood a inv j _ to i to it in 91 lq4fi and 1 Frankfurt March 19 up two doctors a nurse and a blood donor will go on trial before a Heidelberg court March 31, charged with the injury through neglect of 17 babies Given blood transfusions from a known syphilitic. Nine of the 17 died four immediately following the transfusion. All the others were infected with syphilis. ,. The defendants Are or. Philipp Bamberger former head of the world famous Heidelberg u n i varsity clinic or. Rudolf Serin the clinic s chief surgeon Julie Peffer a nurse at the clinic and Johann Orth a Sailor who donated the blood. Bamberger Serin and miss Pef Fer Are alleged to have supervised blood transfusions Given by Orth to 10 babies june 21, 1946, and to seven More babies aug. 12, 1946. Prosecution attorneys charge Orth had been freshly infected with syphilis when he gave his blood the first time and had not been cured by the second Heidelberg Rhein Neckar Zeitung carried a detailed Story of the babies deaths in August 1946. Rudolf Agricola publisher of the Zeitung claimed then that someone attempted to bribe him not to print the Agricola refused the bribe the same person is said to have approached the shop Foreman re Quested him to print a new edition minus the baby Story and promised to Purchase the necessary news print. Newsprint is strictly rationed in Germany. Sary to care of the shoppers. Wives of men of the 15th kept. Nave to take a Long bus Rie to the Kau Beuren commis family rations. The new commissary in the 15th regt. Kaseane is amply stocked a j Pra. I petition for i. Writ of Hareas Corpus was filed with District judge Matthew f. Mcguire. He said Secretary of defense James v. Forrestal and Secretary of the army Kenneth c. Royall were called on to show cause for not freeing flick. Carroll said the petition alleged i that the military court did not Nave jurisdiction that there was not due process of Law and that the pro sect Tion used nazi methods. F associated with him Are attorney Joseph Robinson of new York and Thomas Foley also of Hay Ward. Jena May insure . Travellers Frankfurt March 19 is the joint Export import Agency the. Contemplating the Sale of insurance to americans and allies using toe Jena sponsored hotels or travelling in Jena cont round Export Texi cabe j. F. Cahn Deputy director general of Jena announced. K he said the americans living the Jena sponsored Ritter s Park hotel where they Are required to pay in Dollar backed 30-cent Marks would receive Only Marks if the were involved in. An Accident. Harj explained that the German opera Tor of the hotel has Only Mark insurance and cannot pay dollars Fot. Injury to guests in spite of the fact the guests must Purchase mar coupons for dollars to live in inc hotel. ","/.- i agriculture dept. Bill okd Washington. March 19 a the House passed the agriculture department appropriation k yesterday it totals $545,533.343. 2,671 i dead u. Paris March 19 special the bodies of 2,671 americans killed in France during world War ii departed for their final resting places in the . Aboard the army trans a port Gen. John l. Mccarley yester Day. American Graves registration command whose Job it is to return the bodies of those whose next of Kin request it said the is scheduled to arrive at new to about March 30. Most of the men were Kruea the Normandy Campaign and i been buried in the . Military cemeteries at St. Laurent la Cam and Brosville arc said. The shipment brings to 17,030 the Nura her of bodies disinterred in for burial in the u. S
