European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes May 1948 dropped plan to live Onop Newood tvs the last in a series of eight articles reviewing history of the first year of the today article deals with the sections on the food problem enemy Materiel and displaced persons by Norbert Ehrenfreund staff correspondent Frankfurt occupation prior to the end of the War in called for gis stationed in Germany to live As far As possible on German Ecoma history these plans had to be aban the narrative it was at first thought that at least some potatoes and other fresh vegetables would be but after an investigation in May 7th army reported there would not be a surplus of food stuffs in the near but More Likely a not even the needs of Dis placed prisoners of and other elements expected to subsist on indigenous resources could be met from these sources and it was necessary to supple ment them army it is interesting to find How the quartermaster corps Job of supplying rations was made rather than less by the end of the european was due the to the sudden increase the numbers of displaced recovered Allied military person and prisoners of but it was due also to the fact that so Many categories of per sons were being fed by the and each had to have a different the Neucom history lists 11 menus which were in Force by the pm at one time or another in the Early occupation Days French moslem Continental Allied civilian italian service unit Pris Oner of War menus one for one for menu for Allied frees with the soviet Pris Oner of War civilian ration of for German employees of the occupation and the or operational ration for it was not until september 1945 Able to reduce its list of menus to How the army used its captured Materiel before be Day is also enemy tools fld equipment taken in occupied countries and Germany we reused if possible if not required by the forces Tucey were returned to the sir original owners if those were liberated countries or to their Cap tured Bridge aided greatly in rapid Bridge construct captured electric generators formed a valuable complement to those possessed by the captured railway were important tothe transport tips the history that there were More than displaced persons inthe part of Germany under american control areas held by the 12th and 6th army groups on May maintenance of Law and order was a problem of grave concern to Mili tary it Points As Many displaced persons went on a rampage on being n funds sought for forests Washington Harold House ways and Means has introduced Abill provide in Federal funds to improve National forests and grazing British display new Gas census shows Many shift i Homes in Many claims have been the Gas turbines being shown at the Birmingham Section the British 5 industries fair including that the Gas Turbine May spare the Power Gap to atomic the unit shown is designed for Road the British inventors expect it to revolutionize the Auto Industry since it will anything from gasoline to Candle 3erman 48 revolt linked with american my goals Frankfurt icons will join germans next week in Celebration of fee 100th anniversary of the German Rev of 1848 in a Neucom declared a Holiday for the after noon of May 18 for All american and German personnel in the zone in View of the close links which unite the american people with the German revolution of the Date May is the Day exactly 100 years first session of the German which met in Frank hurts Pauls the Church severely damaged by has been rebuilt and will rededicated May Neucom noted that the objective of that parliament was to a Large extent the goal that Amer ban military government is striving to attain in Germany under March Ruhr output near prewar rate Geneva Coal production broke a postwar record in and reached 70 per cent of the prewar British Coal exports to Europe increased by nearly tons in March and also achieved a postwar these achievements were re corded in statistics published by the economic commission for Ruhr miners increased their daily average output by tons and produced a total of tons during the previous postwar monthly record was tons in per cent of advertising benches Oklahoma City rules Oklahoma City rights mean some thing in this land Rush an advertising Agency asked to build benches at City bus stops and paint on assistant City attorney Don Dow told the commis Sion it legally Public service is the retorted the and approved it a democratic proclamation declared that nowhere was the revolution followed with and warmer sympathy than in the United it said James then president of tree sent official greetings to the Frankfurt the Only head of state to take such it seemed to the people of that the Procla mation that the principles for which they fought m were going to european absolutism and thit Germany was destined to become a democratic Republic modelled on the United hundreds died in Street fighting in Frankfurt and other cities before the Frankfurt parliament was set into motion in King Friedrich Wilhelm forced by an outraged citizenry to withdraw his aftera few dissensions and a Prus Sian War with Denmark gave tie a Chance to himself and hundreds More died in she suppression of the Revo thousands of Ger Man revolutionaries fled to the where Many of them be came eminent american one of these was Carl who was president Rutherford Secretary of the i years ago May 1943 f Allied bombers attack jibe Mohne and sore dams and flood the Ruhr ii May 1944 j advances in Italy bring the Axis Cassino Supply Road from Rome under mortar and machine gun May 1945 the established a military in Germany synth Clay a military May 1946 my the proposes a joint Continental defense Union with can 17 Tok battleship Oklahoma near Hawaii being towed to the for lot of americans have been moving around the country like gypsies since and of seem to Horace Greely advice a special census Bureau Survey a flows that of the persons in the changed Homes at least once Between 1940 and and the trend was definitely to the West probably never before history of the United states has there been and internal movement of such magnitude As in the past seven eventful the Bureau of the who moved Durt ing that switched Homes in the same 000 moved outside the county but within the and about 000 found Homes in other f about almost of the interstate ended up the which had the biggest population gain from the the South continued to with people moving from that Section during the seven the Survey shows that one of every eight persons who lived on farms in moved to cities in the following seven but the Bureau says the migration from the farms has slowed since the end of the world War u veterans were among the most Mobile of All Only three out of 10 Eugis in 1947 were living in the same House they in group plans i rubber roads Washington of a 15nation rubber study group closed a fou Day session with a report that three new uses Are planned for they Are rubber tired wheels for rail Way trains rubber roads and rubber delegates said these would help increase demands for rubber and provide greater for the Michaux vice pres ident of the French rubber in told of rubber tired trains being built in France for use be tween Paris and he said rubbertired1 wheels will help trams to travel Stop run cheaper and be More the group estimated that production of natural rubber in 1948 would be about predicted a Rise to about in 1949 and estimated the total consumption to be about tons in l the b bag students own Musafi manuals i have a number War department education manuals these1 manuals were Given to me by persons who had received them through enrolment in Musafi correspond ence know this is my i am due for rotation to the a few i would like to Send these manuals Home by Bat according to some people that 1 Tiave talked with it seems that i permitted to keep and therefore will not be Al Lowed to these books to Home address in the can ii you help me find the 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