European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1948 the stars and stripes Page com clarifies rules governing priorities for Leucas april 1 and Regula governing the establishment and the operation of the priority waiting lists for the Sale of Leica Lief a camera accessories and Leitz Foco mat Enlargers were Dari fied yesterday by the Neucom Exchange system for Dis Ian nation to the centrally controlled theater wide priority waiting list or the Sale of Leica cameras was1established by m and forwarded to the Neucom Exchange m for this procedure was established Neucom personnel who had entered Postle Veleica Jera lotteries during the month of november 1947 would prise the initial Leica priority waiting Leica camera lottery applications fro mall Post see Cente Page insert for priority exchanges in the european command including the Paris were called into Neucom system As these applications were received they were Tim consecutively from 1 to approximately this Bering was done to enable the priority series to be set a command wide lottery was held at time1 capsules containing slips of paper numbered 1 to 100 were shuffled in a Squirrel Cage and were of withdrawn under the supervision of three number withdrawn represented a series of the prely numbered if 2 was with n the application which had been Given l it arrived at yes would be 1 on the priority toe application which was 102 would be 2 on the ii Jority list and so on through All applications having num ending in represent the first series and Tach consecutive number withdrawn from the Squirrel Page would represent subsequent series in order of num ers r a personnel eligible to enter the waiting lists Leica Leica camera accessories and Weitz Foco mat Eners Ara limited to citizens in the following categories entry holding class Neucom system ration cards military and naval personnel civilians employed by the air state and other govern ment including those paid from no appropriated funds american red Cross class Giro employees in the zone and adult dependents of the above listed per adult dependents Are those 18 years of age or eligible personnel who had not entered the november 1947 Leica camera lottery and not included inthe initial camera priority waiting May at any time enter this waiting list by submitting Neucom Exchange system form special application for Leica forms Are available at All serving Post these applications require information As Apo and Telephone when this information has been entered on the application said application must be presented to the Post Exchange officer or his delegated representative who will enter the time and Date of submission and sign these forms Are forwarded daily through technical channels by local Post exchanges to yes where they will be added to the Leica camera priority waiting list in order of time and Date of submission to the local Post Exchange applicants to be notified individuals will be notified As soon As possible As to their priority status after the application has been entered on the Leica camera priority waiting this has not yet been accomplished due to the present work Load and the that the november applications have not As yet All been entered on the initial Leica camera priority waiting the Neucom Exchange in compliance with a directive from Neucom limits the Sale of Leica cameras 1o one per family in order to effect a More equitable distribution of this highly desired yes is at present delivering approximately 700 Leica cameras per month which have been allocated for resale to Neucom lists of priority holders on the Leica camera priority waiting list have been published weekly in the and stripes in order to notify applicants of their respective priority standing and also As a Means of delivery dates of these the Cost of the fou Page insert has been borne by the Neucom Exchange system As a serv ice to l shipping orders for Leica cameras Are originated at the yes special items operations with the Ansbach depot carrying out the actual shipment of these cameras Topmost exchanges at the same time lists of eligible according to priority and showing the Type of camera each individual is eligible to Are sent to Thev Post Exchange officers Are responsible for notifying each that his or her camera has arrived at the Post Exchange and of the period during which the camera May be notification of eligible purchasers will be accomplished by posting of eligible lists at All Post Exchange including service activities in cases where the com plete address is a form letter addressed through Apo methods which May be used Are local Community publications local radio facilities depending upon Purchase periods named Leila camera Purchase period is from 15th to the 30th of each this Sale period is Necea sary to allow the first 15 Days of each month for packing and shipment from the depot and Transfer from Post Exchange warehouse to local Post each Leica camera receives a thorough inspection prior from the Leica factory at Wetzlar and another inspection by the society Generale de surveillance prior to shipment to the individual Post prior to the Purchase of a Leica a in the Case of and an in All other must be signed by the purchaser no other member of my immediate family has previously purchased a Leica camera through the Neucom Exchange system that i do not own nor have Ever purchased a Leica camera through the Neucom Exchange system this camera will be for my personal5 use an will not be proper identification must be presented by the eligible purchaser at the time the Sale 5 1s b e tie id an so in on on la to dec in j2es personal shopping plan b procure scarce pm items bad april 1 shopping service for of automobile certain tobacco products and some pm Merchan not available in individual Post exchanges will be inaugurated Start to supplement existing mail order yes the new program at the outset will be limited to these four Cate Gories of the announcement but will be expanded to in shopping for articles in to be handled by the army service in new York and certain categories of Merchan Hilse produced in Continental eur these services will not begin until catalogues Are pm customers place orders for individual in yes stocks not carried in their local with the sex rite option of cameras and controlled and certain articles in Short listed in ration special shopping Center will be up in one pm in each in Inch existing mail order services from Sears and Ontgomery Ward con articles available in yes a Kif will be listed in the yes catalogue provided each pm shopping is smallest order order for less than will be effective a car longer order automotive orders or parts will be placed by pm mers at their pm shopping garages will advise car Nurs which parts Are available stocks and which must be Price catalogues for Auto parts Are being obtained which May be limited and Orit Ori and will be impersonal shopping service for will permit Cus l As to obtain items not in Ardees individual be carefully processed form with prevailing tobacco identification and Cou be required and no More a 12week allowance will be one orders will accepted from personnel an leading the of and porcelain pm to order from three eur and Hein Berlin barter markets to close in May 1 announced april Neucom yesterday the three stages by which the army sponsored barter marts in Berlin and Frankfurt will be stage one was accomplished today when the marts ceased accepting goods for stage during which persons holding barter Points will be Able to sex change them for goods already in the will be in effect throughout the month of final stage of the closing Down will be observed from May 1 to when All goods remaining in the will be put on general Sale for in the Case of Neucom and for in the Case of German it was France to release last pcs in fall april 1 will begin freeing the final Ger Man prisoners of War remaining in French territory Early this a spokesman for the Var ministry announced the spokesman said he did not know exactly How Many prisoners remained under French control but that there were less than there Are nearly that Many free German workers in he he All of the prisoners must be returned to Germany by by inter National in there would still remain a few Hundred in by that Hutchinson honoured april 1 Daniel Hutchinson of Rhine main has been named airman of the Nurnberg Post civilian buys her Bonds miss Charlotte civilian employee of Nurnberg military is one of the first civilians in the dec to take advantage of the recently instituted class a pay reservation plan for the Purchase of savings shown with miss Zimmerman As she signed her tvs ago 295 form is Milton of Crimson Oil the personnel and William executive Vance returns to dec when illness strikes april 1 the serious illness of several hos Pital patients returning stateside aboard the sat Zebulon which sailed from Here has forced the ship to return to be announced their illness is not it was arid the Quick return to port has prevented critical danger to the be authorities the with 405 persons co Stab Day room april 1 Spe his inspection of the 28th Louis Neucom inspector Gen stated that the Day room at b was one of the Best that he had seen on his tour of the the Day room was recently completed by the officers and enlisted men of the troop under the guid Ance of 1st Rudolph troop including 250 turned about late1 yesterday and was at the Harbor Entrance proximately 50 Miles from Bremer Haven late since the Hospital ship normally on the new Yor Bremerhaven run was taken off several months ago for patients have been re turned to the by regular transports and by Bronze stars awarded at Landshut ceremony april 1 at a decoration ceremony in Landshut Bronze stars were presented to Marion Nelson b and do 51st conduct against the armed the presentations were made by William 51st and capt Leonard of d 51st five convicted of car thefts april 1 five Cologne members of the International car theft ring which stale at least 30 american vehicles before being cracked in were convicted yesterday in Wiesbaden military govern ment general passing of sentence was deferred until the remaining members of the ring have been before Cid agents rounded it the which included five yugoslavs and an Austria born had succeeded in steal ing so Many cars in the Wiesbaden area and smuggling them out of the country that insurance companies had considered raising their the chief of the a yugoslav who sometimes masqueraded As an american and who forged identity car registrations arid License is still although his haunts in Brussels and other cities have been watched he has not yet been a hoarded water9 Dorothea shown during her trial by an my summary court in was sentenced to one year in Pristin for storing and trying to sell eight bottles of the used in atomic bomb was brought from Norway during War by her a German other members of the Bootleg ring also were arrested and