European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Ii the stars and stems by Bob Considine in Miami is going to get the world Sif a first peacetime Deg Ink. And the Best. It la Cost a i Mil. Deg Ink waste name of dubious origin Given to the remarkable string of motels or airtes whipped up around the world by the at during world War ii. Sometime they were handsome sometimes just Nissensr. Sometimes they blossomed along the Gold coast of Africa sometimes they shouldered their Way up through the Iceland Tundra As was the Case at bw1, the Miami Beach of Greenland. Wherever they appeared they were oases fit to Send the wartime traveler into a Semi swoon of Pride in the accomplishments of the . In Odd places. Three of the officers who made the possible Are about to build one at the new Miami International Airport wit the help of the City s progressive port authority. The gents Are former col Joe Binns now managing director of the Waldorf Astoria former it col Bob Weed at Engineer and former maj Warren Freeman local hotel Man. Free Man was the service officer at the wartime Deg Ink that had perhaps the most distinguished Register of any hotel in history the Deg Ink at , Weed and Freeman Are going to build a hotel that will introduce a new and helpful note in air travel. Ever get stuck at an Airport some Miles from acuity Miami s Skyway International As this super Deg Ink will be called will do something to relieve that woe though you get about As much fog and bad weather per year As you get pay raises. It will have 125 rooms interim rooms a Good dining room bar swim Ming Pool steam Baths entertainment Etc., Etc. The boys Hope to make it pleasure to be held Over or delayed. It will provide a glamorous substitute for that bleakest of Public services the Airport waiting room. And its hard will provide i a Stopover place foursome of our Central and South american neighbors who have trouble getting int downtown hotels. The sex officers who will build and run it Learned a lot about the care and watering of vips during the War. They la put their knowledge and More into this Skyway International which like some of their wartime places sits athwart the Crossroads of the last great hemisphere. Eddie Rickenbacker was saying opening of International Airport that this City As the air age advances will have a population of 5,000,000 in1975. What its transient traffic would be at that time is anybody s guess. Miami Stegink won t exactly Hurt the figure. As a sort of wartime Vagabond i miss the Deg inks of the world. Unless you stopped at them it is hard to describe them. They were a Heady whiff of Home in sometimes atrocious places. They had real eggs and More. Come a cholera plague in Calcutta with bodies in the streets it was Kinda comforting to hear from the freckle Kansan behind the desk of the Deg Ink that he was seeing to it that the water you were drinking was boiled real Good. Come a bubonic plague in the Village near the Deg Ink of the azores it is Nice to be assured by a kid from Cali fornia that the at had inspected the food you were eating. Come the mud an malaria of Kunming it was Nice to know hat the Beds were dry and screened because an american was in charge. Come the incredible Arctic cold of bw1 or bw8 or be2 and it was pretty wonderful to get a Blanket made in Illinois. The Deg inks wore something Voll be this peacetime one. It is hound to be the prototype of havens for hold Over liar travellers a group not Likely to be decimated by the coming of jets and. The weather piercing instruments. Ins feature Section a portrait of marshal Tito graces the Captain s Cabin on the yugoslav tugboat Slavan first to pass through the russian blockade on the Danube and reach Regensburg. Tito Barge men Bun a blockade by win fanning staff correspondent six barges towed by a yugoslav tugboat have arrived in Regensburg after having been passed through the soviet blockade of the Danube first tomake the trip since the East West split Over control of the River in what was described by Bartel Simunovic Yugo slav commercial agent As an experimental trip. The barges towed by the tugs slav Anand Nap Redak reached Linz mon4ay after passing through Hungary and the soviet zone of Austria Simunovic told the stars and stripes we made Many tries before being permitted to make this he could no explain Why the soviets who previously had withheld transit permits finally Al Lowed the Tito flotilla to pass through their control Points in Austria. The interview was conducted in the Captain s Cabin aboard one of the two motor tugboats which brought six Ore Laden barges out of Yugoslavia. On the Wall was a huge picture of marshal Tito and almost drowning out our conversation was the yugoslavian language broadcast of the voice of if the officers and men often listened to the voice several officers in the room agreed of yes we think it is a Fine Are 50 officers and men in the flotilla which left Belgrade dec. 18. We had no difficulties with either russian or German control officials Simunovic said the americans had granted entry visas to the ships and were checked Only once by the russians and once by the germans the spokesman said. A crewman holds out the yugoslav Flag red and Blue with a red Star Tito s Symbol. Contents articles Page Tito Barge men run a blockade by win fanning Freedom of thought by Dwight Schear the Challenge to us All by Gen j. Lawton Collins Winter sports at Garmisch a stars and stripes report get a horse 50 years of gags drawings by Rollie. Ii v. I Xii the ins is shown Tieti up at is pier in re ens org Vilh its Captain Gaca Bosko. The tug six yugoslav barges Laden with valuable ores. Picture features Capitol face lifting drawings by Rollie in regular features report from America the growing Gerdink by Bob Considine ii strictly Femina new clothes for Winter sports vim Cook s tour by Sara in Book reviews exec movie preview Francis the talking mule. X an s proc ram of the week x showcase i crossword Puzzle i wishing Well i this week s cover facing a Choice Between striking photos of ski experts soaring into the air and a couple of begin ners our Art editor chose this photo of two go beginners Takin their first Clumsy Steps on snows kids As being More nearly representative of How most of us look on the slip Pery slats. 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