European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse The stats and stews sunday i Nury 11, if Al releases say yanks held in East Camps Berlin Jan. Is up former soviet zone concentration Camp inmates said they had been americans and other Western Allied nationals imprisoned in the Sachsen Hausen inmates confirmed reports that the Camps add not approach horror conditions which existed under tha nazis but they said Man persons died of starvation and Tut Eri Ulkosis. They were released Thi 3 week Afier the russians ordered the abolition of the three East German concentration Camps still in women released from Sruc Senhausen said they Law two uniformed . Soldiers being shipped eastward presumably tothe user nov. 17. They said the americans were shipped from Theca nip along with 700 russians 74 German men 54 German women and 13 German children. Treatment Chian Grythe women said at least six More americans or britons Suu were to Sachsenhause when they a re Foi Mer inmate Fritz sch Wiz said one Sachsen Nusen bar rack in addition to germans housed one american two French men and several White russians. The women inmates described life at Sachsenhause As horrible in 1946 and 1947. They said at that time the daily food ration was 300 grains of Blacic bread one bowl of thin soup and 15 Grams of sugar they said mistreatment by soviet it Ards was frequent in 1946-1947 but halted completely in 1948. The rations also improved in 1948,they said. Use Blasius 28, who said she had been arrested in August 1946 be cause she had served in the Ger Man army said sanitary conditions in the Camp were beyond she said inmates received no snap no toothpaste and no new clothing. None tortured Anita Czaja who said she was arrested for entering the soviet zone illegally in March 1947, said no one was tortured or deliberately killed. However she said that in 147 is to 20 inmates died daily of malnutrition Aad tuberculosis. She said aft for 1948 the death rate drop Ped to four Volkel said of the 15, 800 Sachsenhause inmates 4,000 were Between the Ages of 10 and 17. She said in her four years at the amp 14 babies were bom to women in her said a had been arrested because he opposed soviet zone. Land said prisoners were not Al Lowed so leave the Cump and worked Only sporadically wifi in the Camp. They said the Camp was burs o u n d e d by three barbed wire fences the innermost one electrically charged they said soviet troops guarded the Camp an manned towers equipped with searchlights. Distress signal Munich Jan. 21 Ney Back. The ears were Ever Dehr ered. Fund paid i by members fihe Union of Vikse to Saver who brought the Peti Tion Are blocked in the old German labor Bank in the soviet in Tor of Berlin cd arrests put up to germans Heidelberg Jan. 21 special Neucom has announced that Mili tary police in the ,-controlled area of Germany will not assist inthe arrest and detention of Ger Man nationals suspected of carrying cd unless requested to do so by German police or Public health authorities through the local Resi Dent officer for Hico. A recent conference of Provost marshals which was also attended by representatives of Hico established that it is the if responsibility of German police to control German cd carriers. The German police will be held responsible for the arrest detention and subsequent physical examination of cd suspects. . Military police May participate in raids another control operations at the re quest of German police if attempt by . Personnel to interfere with German police actions Are expected. Suspects face questioning German police have been directed to question All German women i areas frequented by prostitutes. All individuals who do not have proper credentials will be detailed for physical examination by German health authorities. German Public health authorities Are required to maintain accurate records of All persons found to be infected with cd. Raids on houses of prostitution will be made by German police after securing proper search warrant. Such raids May be conducted at the discretion of German authorities or on direct complaint by occupation authorities. Resident officers for Hico recharged with seeing that German police and Public health authorities carry out their responsibilities. Neucom to continue semimonthly pay Heidelberg Jan. 21 special the practice of paying German and non German resident employees of the . Forces twice a Mont will be continued indefinitely Neucom announced Friday the procedure Calls for a pay ment of approximately 50 per Centof the employee s take Home pay salary or wages Lesa All deductions on the last Day of the Calen Dar month and toe remainder on the 15th Day of the following month. When the last Day or the15th Day of the month Falls on a sunday or a Holiday payments will be mad on the next regular work Day. Excessive room tax weighed Coblenz Jan. 21 a a Taxon germans occupying excessive living space has been proposed by the government of this Over term vied state of Rhmel ind Pfalz. The proposed tax would replace present living space tax which hrs led or protests from he voters. Under be present Law with a few exceptions such As unemployed paupers pays a tax on every Square Yard of apace in his minister Hans Hoffmann who announce the new plan said it had not yet been decided How much living space would be con do red average in Germany Loday is t2 Square feet per person. Hico hats zone labor for Rebuff to reds Frankfurt Jan. 21 is German organized labor in the . Zone has received a Pat of the Back Rora Hico for its 1949 record of defeating communist attempts Tobore from within and for engaging in a comparatively insignificant Amo amt of Industrial Hico announce Nunt based on year end roundups by Hico state labor affairs officials said Trade Smion leadership Fais now secure in democratic communist attempts to secure positions of importance within Trade unions were effectively Defeated by democratic leadership sound currency improved working conditions and wage adjustments the Hico announcement , the announcement noted were at a minimum and time lost Asit result thereof was described As insignificant federation formed the year not Only marked the founding by Western German Trade unions of a new Western German Trade Union federation but also saw this new organization and the individual unions taking up official International connections with the International confederation of free Trade unions founded in London Early in Industrial unions in the . Zone also merged officially with unions in the other two zones to make a total of 16 Trigonal Union affiliated with the Western German were made in the Field of social Security mainly through the Law raising social insurance benefits. Contact Between German Trade unionists and Trade unions in demo cratic countries abroad was effected through the Hico cultural Exchange increases demanded the year also saw some adjust ment in the disparity Between wages and the Cost of living. Despite the continuing comparatively Low wages labor has been slow to demand increases in exercising this restraint officials declared labor wished to avoid an inflationary Price spiral but at the same time it also asked for More adequate controls Over distribution and the prices of con Sumer Bavaria collective bargaining negotiations resulted in More than300 agreements providing better wages and improved working conditions. In the other three states in the . Zone a Large number of contracts also have been concluded. Altogether in the . And British zones there Are How 2,500 such agreements in membership Trade Union membership for the various states was As follows a Varia 818,000 \vurttemberg-Baden,474,576 Bremen 108,000, and Hesse approximately 400,000. Total membership is about 40 per cent of the organi Zable working population in the . of Berlin s labor picture in 1949 is regarded As the six week strike of Railroad workers of the Independent Trade Union Organiza Tion Ugo which immediately Fol Lowed the ending of the soviet blockade and demonstrated the courage of a St Berlin worker against communist threats coercion and terror. Keyes dedicates new radio station airmen family allowance not subject to tax Wiesbaden Jan 21 specs aft Federal income tax will not be with held from the pay of airmen for that part of their pay which is the government s contribution to family allowance it was announced Here the part of the family allowance paid by the government is not tax Able income. The airmen s contribution however is subject to with holding tax. Re rom i Gen Geoffrey keyed Klefti . A Tiff commissioner to att Iii. Reads the dedicatory add As Austria s newest radio station i or Ned at Lite. The .-equipped studio i on the her network. Army in the zones i Ovi Liq authorizes Banks to sell harks Heidelberg Jan. 21 special Neucom Liq yesterday Sulu ii Neucom licensed Banks to sell Marks to personnel authorized to pose military payment addition authority was granted to army finance offices to furnish class a agent finance officers with appropriate amounts of Marks to sell to army personnel at pay tables each payday. This action however be approved by the commanding officer having jurisdiction Over the finance office concerned. Certification that the German Money was purchased legally will be furnished each buyer at the pay table. Heretofore Neucom finance offices have been the Only agencies which could sell Marks legally to military and civilian personnel inthe dec. The finance offices will continue to perform this authorization was granted in response to Many requests by occupation personnel for additional convenient locations inhere the legally might buy German cur Rency. 12 held in smuggling try Vienna Jan. 21 twelve persons have been arrested in the Eastern Tyrol for attempting to smuggle children s shoes and silk fabrics from Italy to Austria it was Learned Here. Police confiscated goods valued at 100.000 schillings. Honor student lauded Schwabish Hall Jan. 21 special sgt Glynn r. Hammock jr., of a Btry 5th a in has received a commendation for being an Honor student and achieving far above average grades at the dec ordnance school from which he recently returned. Hammock from Perry ga., has been in the army five years with 2fi months in the dec. Stolen shoes left behind Munich Jan. Sis a thieves who stole four trunks full of Sisoes from a car parked i downtown Munich abandoned their loot several hour later. Police re ported All four trunks contained nothing but left shoes used As sales men s samples. Post to spend 859,666 Wiesbaden Jan. 21 special appropriations totalling s59,6l 6 for special improvement project it Wiesbaden military Post have by the Post Central Wel fare fund committee finance officer capt Harry s. Brackeen an the exception of $7,450 Al located for the Complete refurbish ing of column half in the Edge club virtually All of the expenditures will be for Iii improvement of athletic facilities. M. � Best room awards Schwabish Hall jar., to special a Competition to select the Best room in the Battery Ever second saturday with a the
