European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june pilots flying Over the Hill near Vienna Vienna a forces in Austria flight Sec Tion Pilot says he has gone Over Ibe Hill he Doest have awol 3n Hes visualizing a sloping Hill due South of Kahlen Berg which Marks the beginning of 1he City of Vienna once Over he the Pilat will head his Stinson l5 toward a Gas Tower in a heavily bombed area several Hundred Yards from the then his Eye will travel to a Blo Klong strip of land bordering the Gas which from the air looks like a newly Lowed to the Lone passenger in the he is not queasy from the the Panorama of steeples and wind ing streets of Vienna is an Awe inspiring but to the the cleared area below constitutes and Calls for Alert changes direction when above the Pilot change his direction from due East to either North or depending on the weather cur and slowly drop to make his at about 100 or 200 Leet he will run into the first of the obstacles which make this Landing strip so almost continuous Cross those winds Jolt the tiny plane like a Joe Louis once the planes wheels touch the ground the Pilot must Cope with the second and most exceptional the Ufa has Ttoe unique distinction of being perhaps the Only Landing Field in the world with a curve in the the Pilot must not Only know How to land a plane but steer it around a 40degree curve As aside from the Cross winds and the strip is unusual be cause it is Only 70 feet wide at its greatest this compares with an average Landing whether in Europe or at of about 100 in spite of these the Ufa flight Section has set the remarkable record of no Acci dents i three years of medic argues lung theory Issue with some earlier a Boston physician says there is no factual evidence Thalji Cigar Ert Orn oking causes lung nothing is known about the cause of the disease that car be translated into effective Sentive Edward Churchill Reid in the journal of the american medical As Churchill said several studies support the belief that lung cancer has been on the increase the first Hall of this he pointed out that some others believe the disease was not recognized so readily in the he evidence that pulmonary cancer was on the increase led to several speculations about causative and among other cig Aret an oking was further knowledge about nature and the Mode of of carcinogenic cancer causing agents end a careful recording of the smoking habits of ample numbers of patients with provide no factual Evi Dence on which advice to give up smoking for this reason can been route to Davy Jones classed As dangerously radioactive As a result of being a target of Bikini atom tests two years the Cruiser Salt Lake City is sunk by torpedoes 138 Miles West of san note torpedo Trail right As the first shot from a surfaced submarine hits Jena seeks to increase total of German exports he id e or b erg order to clarify what the director general of the joint Export import Agency has described As a widespread misunderstanding As to the status of the joint sex port import Agency within the framework of the military government eur com has released the following statement received from William director concerning the status and objectives of Jena i am particularly anxious that the occupation military and understand precisely the function and objectives of some people have thought we were a private business others that we Are quasi govern v the Agency is an official Mili government organization established under the terms of the fusion other Wise known As the Byrne Bevin of december and fee revised fusion agreement concluded in Washington on Decem Bervi autonomous group Jena was organized As a sub committee of the Trade and com Merce Branch of control committee for soviet military a min i 3t r a t i on and French military in years june 1943 Berlin claims foe sinking of Gross tons of Allied ship Ping in May by the Axis june 1944 in the allies take the City of five Miles Inland from the invasion june 1945 Allied Powers assume supreme Rule of Germany and Issue a declaration in Berlin proclaiming the completion of her june 1946 a nine Day strike of Anthracite Coal miners in the is ended with an agreement giving the miners an cents hour wage increase and a health and welfare june 1947 Hungary Premier Lajos announces his plans closest collaboration with soviet and will defuse to recognize any foreign protests against its on received its charter As an autonomous Anglo american responsible Only to the american arid British military governors who comprise the bipartite the Agency is staffed by Amer ican and British personnel Many whom were drawn from org us and control commission Divi Sion in Berlin and All of our personnel Are depart ment of the army employees enjoying the a Jame status As other members of the staff of Mili tary our British per Sennel have a comparable i should like to add a word or two on the Agency As most of you already the Basic policy of the and us governments is to develop in the Biz onal area a self sustained Economy which can be maintained without further financial assist Ance from the or British Jena was created in order to accomplish this objective by developing a sufficient volume of exports to pay for the Cost of and thus reduce the funds being appropriated by the Amer Jinan and British taxpayer for this the overriding motive behind All this Effort is to enable Germany to make its own vital unique contribution to the general recovery can a lady give a mans haircut v Man do you prefer to have your hair trimmed in a Ladys Beauty parlor you can get Job done in its despite the pro tests of Shelbina mis Souris attorney Taylor said the towns Barbers asked that a woman Beauty operator Eluted because she was cutting mens hair without a the county prosecutor ducked the Issue and appealed to the attorney general looked up the precedents excluding the famous one involving Samson and Delilah and came up with this ruling there would seem to be no difference whether a licensed cosmetologist cuts a mans hair or a woman regal that yes stocks wide variety of watches bad nauheim watches Are among the worlds finest since Neucom Exchange system buyers patronize leading Swiss watch the watches which Neucom personnel find in Post exchanges Are the Best that can be during june Post exchanges will begin Dis playing new models of ladies for yes has placed additional Large orders with Swiss other models of ladies watches will be introduced during summer and fall delicate pieces these and others currently seen in Post contain Over 100 and Are among the worlds busiest pieces of delicate their bal Ance wheels alone turn times a contrary to Public the number of jewels in the works of a watch is not the principal measure for judging the watch depends More the skill of the watch maker in making the parts and assembling the assembling a watches where the Swiss watch expert the manufacture of watches is a traditional Trade in a country that has few physical re sources but Many skilled crafts men and also Swiss firms feel that it is a Point of National Honor that their watches give satisfaction a Swiss watch maker has to and is an act As bearings the artistry of assembling is the jewels have the important function of acting As bearings of a the Small wheels of a watch Are at to pinions upon which these wheels the con Stant turning of the pinions re quires substance harder than Metal to withstand such Sucur As sapphires or have proved the most satisfactory the number of jewels Ustel in Swiss watches will Range from five to but almost All watches sold by yes have 17 Swiss watch manufacturers state that it is far better to have a Good Quality seven jewel watch rather than a poor Quality 17 jewel How when a person owns a 17 jewel watch made by Swiss watch experts he has a lasting i watch buyers Are warned that jewelled like those in the should be cleaned and foiled once a the old Oil May impair the watch and even damage the the prices for the new group of ladies watches soon to be appearing in Post exchanges will Range from to about half of the amount the Cus Tomer would pay for the watching the bomber moves West to of Cha Washington air Force a moving the Center of its big bomber command deep into the Midland of v Headquarters of the strategic air operates the striking Force of b29s and other projected Long Range bom be transferred from Andrews in to said the air would place the command at a strategic location near the geographical Center of the other Given for the move were available housing and Field facilities and Good communications at while nothing was said about the element of defense from air attack presumably was an other Andrews a dozen Miles East of Washington could be reached in a very few minutes by any High Speed attackers approaching from at Sac a composed of 12 groups of 30 planes to the five groups of 75 planes to a group and a reconnaissance its operating commands Are the air commanded by Roger and the 15th air commanded by Leon Headquarters of the 8th if at Forth and of the at Colorado one b29 group assigned to the far East air Force in Transfer of two unite of the strategic air command from Mac Dill air base at to has also been an another unit of the strategic air to be activated the near will be assigned to Topeka when that base be comes fully the air Force said that when the Transfer is completed about military and civilian employees will be stationed the Transfer a scheduled to Start in september and be completed next units transferring from mad Dill to Topeka Are the 55th reconnaissance commanded by Alfred and the 7th geodetic control commanded by Ernest the 91st reconnaissance now an air Reserve will be come Active in the next few months and be assigned to rays studied mass rays of super strength tap to volts Are to be studied at Massachusetts Institute of technology As part of the War against the american cancer society announces a Grant of to finance the the stars and stripes m managing editor sports editor june William Ken Zumwalt Jack Ellis executive manager chief of distribution Maurice Kirkewood Bernard my Guitian i news bureaus Frankfurt Stuttgart Berlin 816681 8i6680 Bremerhaven 2228022202 the european edition is published Dally at for the occupation forces under the auspices Oftle troop information and education division Tel Jan Kurt the surs and correspondence be addressed to stars and stripes Apo 17a mail to the new York office should be sent to Wash Lorton this la not an official publication of reentered As second class matter at the Post Fuce at new under the act of March 1