European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1948 the stars and stripes Page Spring is in Berlin with warm weather Back berliners Are turning to truck gardening in the once Beautiful tier Garten to add to their ratio limited calorie a Berlin Farmer left weeds his Patch of Garden in the Shadow of a destroyed air raid and a German family right tend their embryo crop near the shattered Monument to a once victorious German occupation briefs towns placed off limits May the Provost marshals office announced that Ittie towns of Grafen pres Sath vils Kaltenbrunne Anc Omund have been placed off limits to All Allied military civilian personnel by order of the commanding 1st inf no personnel May enter these town except personnel in transit and those with military govern ment on official forum series set May 7 the first of a series of Public for wms in land Bremen will be held in Bremerhaven wednesday Thomas military governor of land announced the forums will be patterned after similar meetings being held in fhe Southern German the meetings will make it possible for persons to ask questions concern ing Public matters in their com Jeja extends service May 7 the joint Export import Agency extended its taxi services by Tak ing Over the management of local taxis operated by the Regensburg military William Post transportation announced a Post taxi coupons Are void and unused coupons will be re deemed at the transportation of fice up to Jena books will be honoured in All cities where jk1a taxis go honoured 2nd time May 7 Rufus Nash of the 7814th was honoured for the Sec Ond time As the Soldier of the week for the Regensburg military Nash is the training noncommissioned officer for the Post Munich Post commended May 7 personnel of the Munich military commanded by Sevier have been commended by Frank w cd of the 1st for exemplary in a letter to Milburn praised him and the members of Post for ithe excellent manner i in which they solved the problems which arose upon the inactivation of the if 3f firing training begun May 7 an intensive firing training sche Dule in which All military personnel will participate with the exception of last years medics and was has been started by the Bremerhaven port of on the remodeler Range Between Here and Bremen will continue until july with All personnel firing the carbine for in addition the 7750th guard is firing my rifles and Light machine 2 births at 130th Hospital May 7 and Howard Good taster announced the birth of a Howard Thomas at the 130th Good taster is with the 708th a daughter was born of and Marvin Deborah May at the same Burns is with the 1st Karls 8 million join Trade unions May 7 the end of German Trade opel maker Dies Wilhelm von former chairman of the Board of the huge opel car works which he who died recently in Wiesbaden at the of unions contained the Biz onal Trade Union Council the councils figures were broken Down As follows american 39 Trade unions with members British 14 Trade members French 39 Trade and the soviet 13 Trade violinist coming to dec May 7 Well known american will be the first of a number of stateside artists to per form in Germany for Allied audiences and their the 20yearold musician will appear May 17 at the to Igiania Palast Here under the sponsorship of the information control she will play Brahms concerto miss travers made her european debut last the Money derived from the admission Price will pay the expenses of the artists coming yes employee wins award bad May 7 special chief of eur com Exchange announces that the award for meritorious serv ice has been Given to yes employee in recognition of his work at the Schierstein depot Dur ing besides the Silver Wreath on a Green Watts will receive a certificate by Clarence Deputy entertainment Aid named bad May 7 special miss Eva former technical adviser for the Soldier shows Sec Tion of Neucom special has been assigned to Weiden to work on related phases of the entertainment program for troops on Maneu vers in in addition to assisting in the production of Sullivan is responsible for the welfare of the 11 civilian actress technicians on temporary duty to the 1st at British seek zone Trade May 7 thirteen British government representatives Are arriving in Frank Furt tonight and tomorrow to Dis cuss Means of expanding Trade be tween the United kingdom and the British and american zones of Ger Holland club conducts guided summer Tours May 7 altho Urh the Tulip season has the Holland club announces it Avill continue guided Tours for visiting americans throughout the the Holland located on the ground floor of the hotel on is operated exclusively for americans and their it was begun after the War by the dutch american Goodwill com but now is run ind Epen jailed nazis seen converts to religion May 7 Ger Man methodist minister said vast numbers of imprisoned wartime nazi leaders had renounced hit lers paganism and embraced Chris Paulus Delegate to the methodist general said the converts included a very great number of University former Gen admirals and the number of former nazi Lead ers who Are turning Iro christianity is he said i talked with Many of them including Sev eral Hundred who had been converted at the Darmstadt concentration six poles sentenced for Coffee thefts May 7 former members of the polish Uard and three germans were sentenced in Omagh intermediate court yesterday to two years at hard labor and fines of Marks each for stealing 390 pounds of Green Coffee from the Quarter master bakery in Wiesbaden judge Hugh Hinchcliffe suspended one year of each term contingent on Good the poles were have broken into the bakery and stolen the Coffee while germans sold it on the Black Aid found vital to keep Greece free by Kingsb Terv May 1 chief of the american Aid warned yesterday that Greece would come under communist domination within 30 Days if the s abandoned its military and economic in an the former Nebraska governor emphasized the importance of continued Aid to Greece and said he Felt the results to Date have fully justified that Griswold declared that Greece cannot be made self supporting with the Aid which it is now receiving from u and added that the Only solution for the greek economic problem is Large scale industrialization of the some advice not taken asked whether cooperation be tween the american Mission and the greek government was work ing out gds old said he thought personal relations were very pleasant and More Satis factory than he had he added that the Mission some times gives advice which is not the greeks undoubtedly feel at times that the Mission is Little unreasonable in its Sugges just As the missus considers the greek government unreasonable at Griswold explained maximum Aid the Mission chief said he Felt the amount of Aid which the american government is giving Greece is about As much As the country could absorb under present he made it that in his opinion this was not going to be enough to make Greece if fighting stopped tomorrow and there was no longer any direct threat from it would change the whole picture in Griswold people would be willing take out some of the capita they have hidden away and put it to at Griswold thinks there is a tremendous amount of Feather bedding in Industry and govern ment in new hostesses greeted at bad Naii Heim special services hostesses who recently arrived in the dec arc greeted at bad Nau Hehn by hostess Jane the new top to Bottom first Van Helen and Marion second Dorothy Mary and Lillion third Culver Sara Denver and Virginia fourth Lorna Denver and Anna red fifth Ohio and Marian services Phot