European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june dec 4hams serve Well in emergency army extends Aid to radio amateurs  by Russell Jones staff correspondent a Heidelberg sergeants father had died and he didst time to get Home from the dec for the the message had come so late that he called his she had already left their Home in St Petersburg in route to Freder the tone even knew just what route she was yet within a few hours the sergeants Mother had been called off the train she was taking North and she was holding a transatlantic conversation with her was the Way it worked hams intercept train when m Albert of the Provost marshals office in got that late he went to friends in the same George one of the pcs 364 radio and asked him for Franklin got on transmitter and soon throughout the South and East on Var Neys a warmhearted toll operator called every hotel in Hagerstown and Frederick to make sure she haunt already arrived in others checked All trains which might be carrying her soon one of them located a Friend of the family who knew which train she had an emergency message to the Ginger halted the train at a Small a Quick Telephone Call to a Ham already and Varney and her son were another Ham in Bremen gave a boost by acting As a that was the first time Varney had Ever used an Amateur radio he has his is building own and is As sort of an unofficial Boss of the dec among his other unofficial Hie serves As a Post office for the cell letter cards hams Exchange every time they make a con army equipment used unlike most of the other 363 dec hams dont have their own transmitting they use by 610 army 500 Watt sets capable of raising just about any country or spot in the the with an Eye on the shortage of trained radio of is glad to let hams make use of equipment which other Wise would lie x v although s it no n g themselves Dick or Harry when they Exchange their Call hams in the dec include some people when there not at the Are rarely called any thing but sir ranking them All is Curtis Safe who recently got the Bug and now spends Long hours trying to raise Afghanistan or maybe an old Friend on the iwo Jima Airfield he himself once somewhat below Lemay Are a Cove of Bird a Forest of some miscellaneous enlisted men and a lot of they All must pass the same test on technique of radio knowledge of code International Morse at 13 words a minute and the rules and regulations of the dec signal the Federal communications commission and the Laws governing International they All get the same kind of Call identification starting with the letter d for it is followed by 4 for the zone and the three let ters for the individual the allies took Over the d signal when germans were to operate their own radio amateurs throughout the zone Are experts at global at of service in Here Albert d4a talks to a pal while i Warren Snyder standing horns Snyder is operator of d4 stations in any officials the germans had Only about 200 hams before the the British in Germany follow their d with a the French with a while As far As the s russians have no hams in Universal code although All hams must know the Samuel Mac of Euc oms signal who handles says less than 20 per cent of those the dec use the rest use voice transmitters even when they Are talking to someone whose Lan Guage they dont us hams private code even a chinese knows an american Means How do you receive me when he says that he Means dear old when he says there Are More than 90 of these informal code design enough so that a fairly intelligible conversation can be carried on without using any Ordinary among the 364 licensed in the zone Are two British employ is of the bipartite control of Maccarter gave them per Mission to go ahead after they had offered their British licenses As evidence they could pass the while the hams Are spread from the to Berlin and from Bremerhaven to there Are several concentrations of amateurs who formed clubs to Exchange information and among the most Active Are a group at fans Frankfurt another at the 7772nd and perhaps the biggest and busiest of men at the Kau Beuren air the Kaif Beuren men have so Many aerials Strung and so Many sets operating that they Call their base radio so Many civilians Are now operating out of the Mac Carter has asked Omegus to take Over responsibility for licensing americans in the army will control i applications but the final authority will be with he scientist foresees isolation of world Galaxy in universe by Paul Ellis new York the far off future the Earth Man will see no stars for the simple reason there will not be any within his famous dutch also i years june 1943 Germany and Italy claim the of six Allied ships by boat and torpedo plane f june 1944 in Handt hand fight their Way into Cher june 1945 on Luzon the japanese lose their main Supply base in the mountains West of Bagayan to june 1946 the Senate to extend the until March but exempts june 1947 the Little White House at warm where pres ident Franklin Roosevelt died in is dedicated As a National said that the time is coming when the Galaxy in which Earth is to May be isolated from All other galaxies in the the reason according to is because the uni verse is expanding that the Galax ies Are racing away from our own presi Den curator of the College i in at has been visit ing americas colleges and silent Tiftic he stopped off at where the worlds largest Telescope has recently been put into in an the talk turned toward Palomar and what the 200 Inch Mirror will Reiken said he believed the big Eye will prove the theory that the universe is and that the than our moving away at a rate of about Miles a the farther they he the greater the and eventually they win be travelling at the Speed of Miles a some he they will pass beyond the horizon will no longer visible to Man on As it is he Earth Man can see Only the stars in his own and a few faint ones in the Galaxy known As andro Meda is about Light music eases irate moods of shoppers Chicago Brown wore an angry frown As she stormed into her neighbourhood food it had been such a frustrating but she haunt stomped far along the aisle be fore she slowed to the rhythm of soft music wafting gently through out the the lady was undergoing some of the latest shopping therapy which Chain food stores Are prac timing on their customers to ease the parting of the seeking out the store Brown you Ive been mad All Dayl one thing after another went but i walked in Here and that Lovely music me and now she left arms piled High with Oliver president of Consumers recalled the experience As an example of music therapy in stores can his company is piping into 110 jewel food stores now and weve not had a complaint he other devices tried thoughts and ideas have been Given to the housewives Comfort and enjoyment of shop new food stores have a la City officials and Community leaders turn out for the ribbon cutting Cere helium balloons soar sky there May even be a neighbourhood Queen average age about four there called stores of to doors open automatically a customer a operated by an electric once tender concern for the housewife she has Junior along she can choose a shopping cart with a rumble seat attached for him to Hes Happy for the Shes Happy not to have to Corral him frequently in the the Ager is Happy not to have so much work to do in restoring order to the in some departments the shopper gets a free sprig of Parsley with each Purchase to dress up the Platter at germans ransack ruins for building material Berlin a shortage of building materials has forced the germans to use All sorts of substitutes in an Effort provide Homes for bombed out the latest innovation is in joists Are very difficult to obtain in Timber Short the answer was found by builders in the they Are salvaging steel pipes which then Are welded together As a Frame to support tile isl slogans be support f go Washington makers these Days Are ing their talents to with a presidential cd coming it requires very urge to take pen in hand scratch off a or song tuned to aspiring dental most of those received by Republican National commit refer to the party in general than specific candidates for there Are 13 so having convention Delegate the receive slogans using president Trum apparently in the belief will be his party although neither party a picked an official republicans have found Gest Ion popular save whats a Democrat counters this whats or Sav other gop suggestions get Truman the Gate in tit second Truman concentrate on throw the rascals change horses before we get to a Democrat sent in a the White House some slogans using the dents name lets be i with lets be a Man with vote a Downto Earth h Hoffman Seti goal of ec4 Washington Europe will be tolerably off when its people have an come of Dolla economic Istratov Paul Hoffman he told the House of rep Stives appropriations Cummitt that would mean a Dollar increase Over the income of the tents of the 16 Marshall i do not see How anyone co complain about their living he when their come per person of co be Only a Small percentage what ours is in this he gave the 1947 income for a populate of baby Sitters come High Milwaukee e o r truck Driver and fat of three Small c planned in a suit for divorce his wife yen to get out in evenings Cost him last in baby Sitters the stars Andt stripes s02 Junn editor chief a Tula msummers editor sports editor executive Maurice of distribution Bernard chief news bureaus Stuttgart Berlin 846680 Vienna Bremerhaven Munich Grafe Wohr the european edition is published daily at of Ungstad Hesse for the occupation forces under the troop information and education division the stars and Plung Stadt be addressed to stars and stripes Apo mail to the new York office should Fae sent to n this is not an reentered As second class matter i at the anew tinder the act of March