European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1948 the stars and stripes Page 7 surplus turning up in movies 10 million Worth sold at Cut rates Howard Hen Bollywood sur of dollars its Way into the world War i studio prop men had to rent Battle gear Job this time they Are they Are buying big lots Are filled with stuff h sooner or will turn in equipment is Good for any weapons but other can pass close scrutiny in aaes at chateau Thierry or iwo tent for or not All of it gets on the aluminium cooking telephones and Walki talkies i used by studio Crews on Loca Ted special effects direct at is Jung a Field Day with Mechanic Odds and ends picked up at plus for the wonderful at Knoth and his rigged up a self opening suit use used by Donald Oconnor As liniment he did it with oxygen valves and a bomb door regional director Walter Rover says the War assets administration has classed film studios among the nations buyers of War sur a government Survey shows that equipment costing originally has been purchased by picture they paid far less than half that amount for what they the property buyer from metro Goldwy Mayer acquired six weasels for he didst even have to apply any makeup the shrapnel scars on these weasels were Columbia studios claim the rec Ord for volume of War surplus in the eed Skelton picture the Fuller Brush two big sound stages were filled with Plas tic air plane gun rubber life camouflage nets and other equipment to background a scene in which the villains Chase Skelton through a in Paramount the Long Grey line a Story about West Farmers give potatoes april 14 Farmer of near Jave contributed pounds of Jol aloes to City workers of the James Hesse pkg Farmers made their donations my personal stocks authorized and at the same time have produced 96 per cent of their As Newman the drive for potatoes for factory Edwhite Collar workers was started liter Karl District pres and Mervin local my told Farmers that Waszmer goods needed by Farmers wild not be produced unless workers had More to within five Days Volunteer workers bad called on every House inthe set asking individuals to donate 60 pounds of potatoes of the 400 is theorized More than Aimers seed gift to Start port Gya gardens ele Haven april 14 a Large gift of assorted seeds from the citizens of be has enabled be to Start its first Gya gardening and Milberg re Quested the seed donations from Csir the seeds have teen Given to German school of seals Here and plans Call for a Owden to be opened by each school More seess Are the be Gya Section recently bunched a drive to secure seed donations from stateside friends ind included in the Lesueur Contri cation were car and Parsnip Charity coordination planned in Frankfurt i april 14 Robinson cd of has authorized establishment of the american Board of charities for coordination and assistance to private activities on the Frank Furt military it was an the objective of the Abc will be to promote coordination of Chari table activities by Exchange of in formation Between agencies and individuals engaged in such enter officials turn schools into boy mayor suggests april 14 mayor Nathan the cites chief executive for a has a solution the housing elected mayor a a boys club suggested today that schools be turned in to there Are too Many he cow thief faces twin peril police and radioactivity april 14 thief who stole a red cow from the University of Florid Campus has two strikes against him if he evades the police he is risk ing danger from the it has been used at the University nutrition Laboratory for testing scientists have feeding it radioactive War surplus is extensively pm quantities of rubber bags went into special effects for till the Clouds Roll Paramount electrical department bought feet of Cable and scores of plug boxes for studio Wally West mores makeup Crew experimented with army camouflage face paint for technicolor twentieth Century Fox bought a Fleet of Field com Mercial cars and weapons some were modified to carry prop erties and wardrobes to locations or sound two Way radios adapted two Way radios and Beachman ters trumpets have been adapted to the needs of movie directors in the army vacuum carts which transported hot food to com units now Are used to feed film Crews on Back lots or Loca in that lady in Ermine the carts kept food steaming realistically through Many takes of a banquet Fox also bought a surplus dc3 air plane for Quick communication Between studio and companies on the ship ferried Tyrone Power and other stars Back and Forth during the filming of Cap Tain from Castile in the b17 bomber used in Samuel Gold Wyns the years of our lives awaits other Cinema roles on a studio lot crammed with other surplus Bela Lugosi Wing flapping Bat in the brain of Frankenstein at Universal International was built mainly of air plane these likewise went into a complicated Gadget which wiggles Ann Blythe foam rubber appendage in Peabody and the tank retriever converted Universal International has converted a tank retriever to a stand by parachutes and air plane target kits to furniture two hangars Are temporary sound compasses and Mobile radio sets have been assigned to assistant directors for handling crowd and Battle Rio bought quonset huts for warehouses on the studio Eagle lion reported an exciting use of War in filming the Man from a team of horses ran with actress Lynn Bari tugging desperately at the an assistant director grabbed an army loud his stentorian whoa from the amplifying Trum pet halted the galloping that what Eagle lion and waa victim Breaks leg twice grand april 14 c r o u s in route Home from a Hospital with a cast on the broken leg he suffered in an Auto broke the leg again in another trooper honoured april 14 special pfc Anthony of b to was selected from nine outstanding men of the 53rd As trooper of the Lapointe whose Hometown is the Honor because of his com plete knowledge of military Anc International Gya asks youths of to help German groups april 14 the Nurnberg Post Gya office has released a new plan designed to encourage youth organizations in the to assist youth groups in the new plan has been labelled youth helps in order to put this plan into operation throughout the Gya is soliciting the names of suitable groups both in America and Ger arrangements Are being made for German groups to write now to groups in the which have similar commenting on the new plan Mark Nurnberg military Post Gya gave i his approval and anyone in this work soon learns that the youth in Germany Are eager to relationship with the democrats nations on the in Nurnberg and Furth there 51 licensed youth Many o which have similar counterparts in the Neucom postal authorities have ruled that any mail address to youth helps Apo 696 will be allowed the advantages of the military postal Andy monkeys with an 18month old was Given an Intel Lisenbee test to decide whether he was Able to grasp things More quickly a human he was supposed to place Square and triangular pieces Back in proper places on he but pictures show he had Andy removes pieces from their places on the his next Best Effort was Monkey baby talk through the round he tries to Eft the Triangle and to Wear the cardboard on to wind it mow Andy it of peekaboo Wmk the
